Information
Switch
Switch
The topic you requested is included in another documentation set. For convenience, it's displayed below. Choose Switch to see the topic in its original location.

TimeSpan::Subtraction Operator (TimeSpan, TimeSpan)

.NET Framework (current version)
 
equivalentCodeEntityM:System.TimeSpan.Subtract(System.TimeSpan)

Subtracts a specified TimeSpan from another specified TimeSpan.

Namespace:   System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

C#
C++
F#
VB
Copy 
public:
static TimeSpan operator -(
	TimeSpan t1,
	TimeSpan t2
)

Parameters

t1
Type: System::TimeSpan

The minuend.

t2
Type: System::TimeSpan

The subtrahend.

Return Value

Type: System::TimeSpan

An object whose value is the result of the value of t1 minus the value of t2.

Exception Condition
OverflowException

The return value is less than TimeSpan::MinValue or greater than TimeSpan::MaxValue.

The following example uses the TimeSpan subtraction operator to calculate the total length of the weekly work day. It also uses the TimeSpan addition operator to compute the total time of the daily breaks before using it in a subtraction operation to compute the total actual daily working time.

C#
VB
C++
Copy
No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
Return to top
Show: