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Help with Timespan diff in vb.net

I'm trying to get the difference of 2 dates in min or seconds. When I check the dates, they are both correct with the correct time. When I try to get the difference of the 2, it's not correct. Am I doing this wrong?

Dim strFileInfo As New System.IO.FileInfo("C:\testfile.txt") 'get file info

Dim dateDiff As TimeSpan = DateTime.Now.Subtract(strFileInfo.LastWriteTime.Date)
MsgBox(strFileInfo.LastWriteTime.TimeOfDay.ToString & " " & Date.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString & " " & dateDiff.Seconds.ToString)

If dateDiff.Seconds >= 120 Then 'if older than 2 min, dont use it. info is not current

Miguel Oz

I think what you need to use is the TotalSeconds property.

MsgBox(strFileInfo.LastWriteTime.TimeOfDay.ToString & "    " & Date.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString & "   " & dateDiff.TotalSeconds.ToString)

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Note: Property Seconds returns only the Seconds component of the TimeSpan.

chadmanvb

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I'm still not getting this to work. Here is what I get when I do TotalSeconds.

21:04:49.0220256 21:10:13.5014703 76213.5004702

when I do seconds I get this. This will always show me the seconds in the date.now.timeofday
21:04:49.0220256 21:10:55.2506448 55

I'm sure I'm missing something simple here.

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