TimeSpan.FromSeconds Method (Double)

 

Returns a TimeSpan that represents a specified number of seconds, where the specification is accurate to the nearest millisecond.

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

Public Shared Function FromSeconds (
	value As Double
) As TimeSpan

Parameters

value
Type: System.Double

A number of seconds, accurate to the nearest millisecond.

Return Value

Type: System.TimeSpan

An object that represents value.

Exception Condition
OverflowException

value is less than MinValue or greater than MaxValue.

-or-

value is Double.PositiveInfinity.

-or-

value is Double.NegativeInfinity.

ArgumentException

value is equal to Double.NaN.

The value parameter is converted to milliseconds, which is converted to ticks, and that number of ticks is used to intialize the new TimeSpan. Therefore, value will only be considered accurate to the nearest millisecond. Note that, because of the loss of precision of the Double data type, this can generate an OverflowException for values that are near but still in the range of either MinValue or MaxValue, This is the cause of an OverflowException, for example, in the following attempt to instantiate a TimeSpan object.

' The following throws an OverflowException at runtime
Dim maxSpan As TimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(TimeSpan.MaxValue.TotalSeconds)

The following example creates several TimeSpan objects using the FromSeconds method.

' Example of the TimeSpan.FromSeconds( Double ) method.
Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

Module FromSecondsDemo

    Sub GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( seconds As Double )

        ' Create a TimeSpan object and TimeSpan string from 
        ' a number of seconds.
        Dim interval As TimeSpan = _
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds( seconds )
        Dim timeInterval As String = interval.ToString( )

        ' Pad the end of the TimeSpan string with spaces if it 
        ' does not contain milliseconds.
        Dim pIndex As Integer = timeInterval.IndexOf( ":"c )
        pIndex = timeInterval.IndexOf( "."c, pIndex )
        If pIndex < 0 Then   timeInterval &= "        "

        Console.WriteLine( "{0,21}{1,26}", seconds, timeInterval )
    End Sub 

    Sub Main( )

        Console.WriteLine( "This example of " & _
            "TimeSpan.FromSeconds( Double )" & _
            vbCrLf & "generates the following output." & vbCrLf )
        Console.WriteLine( "{0,21}{1,18}", _
            "FromSeconds", "TimeSpan" )    
        Console.WriteLine( "{0,21}{1,18}", _
            "-----------", "--------" )    

        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 0.001 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 0.0015 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 12.3456 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 123456.7898 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 1234567898.7654 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 1 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 60 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 3600 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 86400 )
        GenTimeSpanFromSeconds( 1801220.2 )
    End Sub
End Module 

' This example of TimeSpan.FromSeconds( Double )
' generates the following output.
' 
'           FromSeconds          TimeSpan
'           -----------          --------
'                 0.001          00:00:00.0010000
'                0.0015          00:00:00.0020000
'               12.3456          00:00:12.3460000
'           123456.7898        1.10:17:36.7900000
'       1234567898.7654    14288.23:31:38.7650000
'                     1          00:00:01
'                    60          00:01:00
'                  3600          01:00:00
'                 86400        1.00:00:00
'             1801220.2       20.20:20:20.2000000

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
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