Tag Archives: time

Use a symbiote to graphically select hours in C#

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example modifies the previous example Graphically select hours in C# so it uses a symbiote class. That example shows how to use a PictureBox to let the user select a range of hours. If you want to let the … Continue reading →

Posted in controls, graphics, user interface | Tagged C#, C# programming, controls, example, example program, graphics, hours, select hours, select time, symbiote, time, user interface, Windows Forms programming | 1 Comment

Graphically select hours in C#

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Rod Stephens

The DateTimePicker control lets you select dates and date ranges, but there’s no standard control that lets you select hours. This example shows one way to do this with a PictureBox. A big part of this program is the DrawHours … Continue reading →

Posted in controls, graphics, user interface | Tagged C#, C# programming, controls, example, example program, graphics, hours, select hours, select time, time, user interface, Windows Forms programming | 1 Comment

Add a ToString extension method to the TimeSpan structure in C#

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Rod Stephens

Until .NET Framework version 4.0, you could not pass the TimeSpan structure’s ToString method a format string, so the result was always in the form hh:mm:ss.fffffff where hh is hours, mm is minutes, ss is seconds, and fffffff is 7 … Continue reading →

Posted in extension methods, parsing | Tagged C#, C# programming, Date, example, example program, extension methods, parsing, time, TimeSpan, ToString, Windows Forms programming | 2 Comments

Get the current time from the NIST server in C#

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Rod Stephens

This example, courtesy of Adam Benson, shows how you can get the current time from the NIST atomic clock server. (I’ve reformatted it slightly to make it fit better on the blog page.) The key to the program is the … Continue reading →

Posted in miscellany, system | Tagged atomic clock, C#, C# programming, date and time, DateTime, example, example program, get date, get time, miscellany, NIST, NIST time, system, time, Windows Forms programming | 1 Comment

Measure elapsed time in C#

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Rod Stephens

For most tasks, you can measure elapsed time with the Stopwatch or DateTime classes. To use the Stopwatch class, create a Stopwatch object. Use its Start and Stop methods to start and stop it. If you use Start after stopping … Continue reading →