DateTimeOffset.Ticks Property
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Gets the number of ticks that represents the date and time of the current DateTimeOffset object in clock time.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The Ticks property is not affected by the value of the Offset property.
The value of the Ticks property represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since 12:00:00 midnight on January 1, 0001 (the value of MinValue). It does not include ticks that would be added by leap seconds. A nanosecond is one billionth of a second; there are ten million ticks in a second. The value of the Ticks property ranges from DateTimeOffset.MinValue.Ticks to DateTimeOffset.MaxValue.Ticks.
You can assign the number of ticks to a DateTimeOffset object by using the DateTimeOffset(Int64, TimeSpan) constructor overload.
The following example initializes a DateTimeOffset object by approximating the number of ticks in the date July 1, 2008 1:23:07. It then displays the date and the number of ticks represented by that date to the console.
' Attempt to initialize date to number of ticks ' in July 1, 2008 1:23:07. ' ' There are 10,000,000 100-nanosecond intervals in a second Const NSPerSecond As Long = 10000000 Dim ticks As Long ticks = 7 * NSPerSecond ' Ticks in a 7 seconds ticks += 23 * 60 * NSPerSecond ' Ticks in 23 minutes ticks += 1 * 60 * 60 * NSPerSecond ' Ticks in 1 hour ticks += 60 * 60 * 24 * NSPerSecond ' Ticks in 1 day ticks += 181 * 60 * 60 * 24 * NSPerSecond ' Ticks in 6 months ticks += 2007 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365L * NSPerSecond ' Ticks in 2007 years ticks += 486 * 60 * 60 * 24 * NSPerSecond ' Adjustment for leap years Dim dto As DateTimeOffset = New DateTimeOffset( _ ticks, _ DateTimeOffset.Now.Offset) outputBlock.Text &= String.Format("There are {0:n0} ticks in {1}.", _ dto.Ticks, _ dto.ToString()) & vbCrLf