Custom Formatter with String.Format

[clintonG]

TimeSpan utcOffset = localZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.Now);
MessageLabel.Text = utcOffset.ToString( ); // returns -06:00:00

Instead of -06:00:00 I want -06:00.
Apparently the custom formatter should be 0:zzz but I can't figure out the
correct String.Format grammar to get the desired result.
Can you?

<%= Clinton Gallagher

 

[Tim Scott]

Clinton,

I did some searching for "TimeSpan format" on the .NET newsgroups, and
found some other messages asking similar questions. It looks like
TimeSpan is not as nicely formattable as other classes and structs in
..NET (like DateTime). One suggestion to get what you were asking for
is something like:

string formatedTimeSpan=String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}", utcOffset.Hours,
utcOffset.Minutes);

See
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp/msg/e5a8dcf28516873f

-- Tim Scott
http://geekswithblogs.net/tscott

 

[Guest]

If you're just formatting your time for display you could do something like

DateTime displayTime = DateTime.MinValue + time;
Console.WriteLine(displayTime.ToString("-HH:mm");

HTH

 

[clintonG]

Thanks Tim, that works just fine.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

 

[clintonG]

Thank you for that suggestion Dale.

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