Convert time to seconds 1

[dazzer123]

Hi,

I'm having a real problem with something a though would be fairly simple!

I have a time in the format "hh:mm:ss" and I want to convert this into seconds but I just can't work out how to do it.

For example I may have 01:02:04 and I need to convert this into seconds (I thinks its 3724 for the example above)

Any ideas would be greatly appriciated

 

[ca8msm]

You could use a TimeSpan to return the number of seconds to you...


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[dazzer123]

I just came up with this, however how would TimeSpan work I've tried it but I couldn't seem to get it to do what I wanted. Thanks for your help



Private Function ReturnSeconds(ByVal strTime As String) As Integer
Dim strHours As String
Dim strMinutes As String
Dim strSeconds As String

Dim arrTime() As String

arrTime = strTime.Split(":")

strHours = arrTime(0)
strMinutes = arrTime(1)
strSeconds = arrTime(2)

ReturnSeconds = strHours * 60 * 60
ReturnSeconds += strMinutes * 60
ReturnSeconds += strSeconds


End Function

 

[ca8msm]

Well as a really quick example (not the best but it at least illustrates how a TimeSpan could be used) you could use something like:

        Dim ts As TimeSpan = CDate(CDate(DateTime.Today & " 01:02:04")).Subtract(CDate(DateTime.Today))
        Dim intSeconds As Integer = ((ts.Hours * 60) + ts.Minutes) * 60 + ts.Seconds

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[dazzer123]

I see, thanks for your help.