TimeSpan.TotalMinutes vs. TimeSpan.Minutes

February 15th, 2006 by admin | Filed under .NET, Mobile.

I was trying to find total minutes an event had been running.

TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan();
ts = DateTime.Now – myEvent.StartTime;
if (ts.Minutes > 15)>

Compiles and runs… Not actually the behavior I was looking for. This returns the minute value of the time.

Example: time span was 1:12 (1 hour, 12 minutes)

This code evaluated true because 12 is less than 15.

This is the correct code.

if (ts.TotalMinutes > 15)>

This evaluated 72 > 15.

Robert | 18/12/09
Easy mistake to make.

Searching for “TimeSpan minutes” brings up your page and, since I didn’t notice “TotalMinutes” in intellisense, this was helpful to point it out. Thanks for posting!