{"id":29601,"date":"2023-01-09T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-format-datetime-without-converting-it-to-a-string-in-c-closed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T01:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:56:49","slug":"solved-format-datetime-without-converting-it-to-a-string-in-c-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-format-datetime-without-converting-it-to-a-string-in-c-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Format DateTime without converting it to a string in c#? [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-75036047\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"75036047\" data-parentid=\"75035211\" data-score=\"3\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I think there is a bit of a confusion here what the string concatenation does to your values.<\/p>\n<p>It is nothing less than simply using the <strong>default<\/strong> format for a parameterless <code>ToString()<\/code>!<\/p>\n<p>Each of your strings like<\/p>\n<pre><code>Debug.Log(\"currentTime: \" + currentTime);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>basically internally implicitly equal<\/p>\n<pre><code>Debug.Log(\"currentTime: \" + currentTime.ToString());\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In that case the <code>ToString()<\/code> without parameters can be omitted since c# already uses it implicitly.<\/p>\n<p>=&gt; You <strong>are<\/strong> using <code>string<\/code> in all your examples! How else do you think anything is logged (as a string!) to the console? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>As noted in the comments a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/api\/system.datetime\"><code>DataTime<\/code><\/a> is just a point in time and basically just a kind of wrapper around a <code>long<\/code> which are the <strong>system ticks<\/strong> passed since the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unix_time\">Unix Epoch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All the other properties, values and formats are calculated based on those ticks on demand (which makes it quite expensive btw).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Is there a way to get &#8220;DateTime.Now&#8221; formatted as &#8220;dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, exactly how you did it.<\/p>\n<p>So what you want to do is just use <code>DateTime<\/code> for all your calculations and <code>AddMinutes<\/code> etc. and then only when you need to <strong>display<\/strong> the (current) value you simply pass in the correct format just like you did in your first line<\/p>\n<pre><code>const string format = \"dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss\";\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<pre><code>Debug.Log(\"currentTime: \" + currentTime.ToString(format));\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now finally knowing your actual code and issue<\/p>\n<p>There is no reason to use parse here &#8230; what you want is<\/p>\n<pre><code>TimeSpan totalTime = DateTime.Now - lastTime;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and then <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/api\/system.timespan.tostring#system-timespan-tostring(system-string)\"><code>Debug.Log(totalTime.ToString(YOUR_DESIRED_FORMAT));<\/code><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Format DateTime without converting it to a string in c#? 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