string.format and timespan

[RicercatoreSbadato]

I'd like to print a TimeSpan variable in this way:

00:00:00 --> hh:mm:ss

(whitout the milliseconds)

how can I do it?

 

[Guest]

I think you can do it like this:
TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(23,40,3);
DateTime d = new DateTime(ts.Ticks);
string time = d.ToString("hh:mm:ss");
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[Morten Wennevik]

00:00:00 can't be displayed as hh:mm:ss though. You need HH:mm:ss for that.

If you need to show total hours this method won't work if the TimeSpan exceeds 24 hours.
If this is an issue you can always format your string the hard way

TimeSpan s = dateTimeB - dateTimeA;
string time = ((int)s.TotalHours).ToString().PadLeft(2, '0') +":" + s.Minutes.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0') + ":" + s.Seconds.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0');

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

00:00:00 can't be displayed as hh:mm:ss though. You need HH:mm:ss for that.

If you need to show total hours this method won't work if the TimeSpan exceeds 24 hours.
If this is an issue you can always format your string the hard way

TimeSpan s = dateTimeB - dateTimeA;
string time = ((int)s.TotalHours).ToString().PadLeft(2, '0') +":" +
s.Minutes.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0') + ":" +
s.Seconds.ToString().PadLeft(2, '0');

Or, slightly more concisely:

TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(12, 6, 7);
string x = string.Format ("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}", (int)ts.TotalHours,
ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds);