Creating a method for returning elapsed time from (DateTime.Now)

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I was making an instant messenger app, so i need a way to tell the user how long ago a message was received. My method takes in a DateTime.Now that was captured and checks it against the current DateTime.Now to see elapsed time, it then calculates it and returns things like "6 seconds ago", "1 minute ago" , " 1 month ago".

I posted my code here: http://pastebin.com/7N1kqLQ6

I dont believe my code is right. Does anyone else see a problem in my code logic?

Read this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11/how-do-i-calculate-relative-time — Nikhil Agrawal, Sep 21 '13 at 03:11
@Nikhil Agrawal thanx. I was looking for something like this. — user1775297, Sep 21 '13 at 03:42
You shouldn't ever use `DateTime.Now` for this anyway. You will have errors around daylight saving time transitions. [Read more here](http://codeofmatt.com/2013/04/25/the-case-against-datetime-now/). — Matt Johnson-Pint, Sep 28 '13 at 21:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '13 at 02:53

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TimeSpan.Minutes is always going to be < 60, because it's only the "minutes component" not the "time represented in minutes."

You should probably be using the corresponding Total methods, such as TimeSpan.TotalMinutes.

answered Sep 21 '13 at 02:53

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