Question

Trying to figure out time formatting is absolutely killing me.

When I press a button I collect a start time using:

StartTime = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh.mm.ss.tt")

Then when the calculation is done I have:

EndTime = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh.mm.ss.tt")

What I would like to do is to:

TotalTime = EndTime - StartTime  

But to print the time using the format; “?# Hours, ## Minutes, & ## Seconds”

Answer 1

I probably wouldn’t use the ToString() function on the StartTime and EndTime variables, since that turns them into strings.

Try this:

Dim StartTime as DateTime = DateTime.Now

'' Do Stuff

Dim EndTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now

Dim TotalTime As TimeSpan = EndTime - StartTime

Me.Text = TotalTime.ToString("hh':'mm':'ss")

Of course, you can skip the TotalTime variable and just calculate it in place:

Me.Text = (EndTime - StartTime).ToString("hh':'mm':'ss")