Convert to minutes

A timer has been stopped at some point. The timer is in the form of 00:00:00-hrs mins, secs

how is it possible to take all of this, even if it has 10:14:29, and convert it to minutes?

i dont mind if it has something like 117.67 mins-thats even better.

can anyone help?

Seems like I'm on a TimeSpan kick these days :) - there are probably several ways to achieve the same results.

VB Code:

Dim span As New TimeSpan(Date.Parse("10:14:29", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, Globalization.DateTimeStyles.NoCurrentDateDefault).Ticks)
        MsgBox(span.TotalMinutes)

i get an error. i have changed it as u will notice to read the label(lblduration). it comes up with an error.

i am attempting to read the label box value after the timer has been stopped.


Private Sub CmdStopTimer_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CmdStopTimer.Click

Timer1.Stop()
Dim span As New TimeSpan(Date.Parse(lblduration.ToString, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, Globalization.DateTimeStyles.NoCurrentDateDefault).Ticks)
MsgBox(span.TotalMinutes)

CmdStopTimer.Enabled = False
CmdStartTimer.Enabled = True
End Sub

Shouldn't that be lblduration.Text.ToString? Also you can parse directly to the TimeSpan object but I believe it must have all 3 sections of time (hours:minutes:milliseconds), not for sure though.

VB Code:

Dim span As TimeSpan=TimeSpan.Parse(lblDuration.Text)
Msgbox(span.TotalMinutes)

Edneeis is right, although it's overkill to do a ...Text.ToString. Check out what gets returned from:

VB Code:

MsgBox(lblDuration.ToString)
        MsgBox(lblDuration.Text)
        MsgBox(lblDuration.Text.ToString)

And yeah, you should parse directly to a TimeSpan rather than use the date business - it's way less verbose. That was bad on my part.