Simple way to handle time in C#?

Question

My current approach is something like

DateTime startHour = new DateTime(1900,1,1,12,25,43);
DateTime endHour = new DateTime(1900,1,1,13,45,32);

// I need to         


        

Answer 1

It's not at all clear what you mean by "is greater than startHour"... but taking

TimeSpan startHour = new TimeSpan(12, 25, 43);
if (endHour.TimeOfDay > startHour)
{
    ...
}

... works pretty simply.

By all means add argument checking to make sure that you don't specify a value for startHour which is < 0 or > 23 hours, but that's all pretty easy.

.NET's date and time API is quite primitive (even in 3.5) compared with, say, Joda Time - but in this particular case I think it's not too bad.