extracting number from date

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Suppose it's Oct. 2, 2004 and time is 03:01:27.

I need a number (integer) that is in this form:

days hours minutes seconds

Using the example, the number will be:

2030127

Right now, I'm converting DateTime.Now to strings, concatenating them and
converting back to an integer:
"2" + "03" + "01" + "27"

Is there an easier way to do this?
 
You can use the version of ToString that takes a format, i.e.

int i = int.Parse(d.ToString("dhhmmss"));

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Suppose it's Oct. 2, 2004 and time is 03:01:27.

I need a number (integer) that is in this form:

days hours minutes seconds

Using the example, the number will be:

2030127

Right now, I'm converting DateTime.Now to strings, concatenating them and
converting back to an integer:
"2" + "03" + "01" + "27"

Is there an easier way to do this?


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bill tie said:
Suppose it's Oct. 2, 2004 and time is 03:01:27.

I need a number (integer) that is in this form:

days hours minutes seconds

Using the example, the number will be:

2030127

Right now, I'm converting DateTime.Now to strings, concatenating them and
converting back to an integer:
"2" + "03" + "01" + "27"

Is there an easier way to do this?
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As well as Richard's suggestion, you could use:

int value = dt.Day*1000000 +
dt.Hour*10000 +
dt.Minute*100 +
dt.Second;
 
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