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Converting minutes to hours only

I’m trying to solve this problem :
I’ve a large amount of minutes and I want to convert them into hours only, when I try with TimeSpan, it always shows days and hours.
My example code :
double minutes = 2000 ;
TimeSpan hours = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(minutes);
label1.Text = hours.ToString(#"hh\:mm");
The output result is 09:20 but I wanted this result 33:20
How can I convert minutes to get exact numbers of hours ?

This code produces the 33:20 result you're asking:
double minutes = 2000;
TimeSpan ts = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(minutes);
var res = $"{(int)ts.TotalHours}:{ts.Minutes}";

You need to use TotalHours on the TimeSpan object.
string.Format("{0}:{1}",
(int) hours.TotalHours,
hours.Minutes);

Yet another possibility is to use 0 and 00 formatting strings in order to combine formatting and truncating:
double minutes = 2000;
// 2000 -> 33:20
// 1808 -> 30:08
// 8 -> 0:08
label1.Text = $"{minutes/60:0}:{minutes%60:00}";
If minutes can be negative, you should add Math.Abs:
// -2000 -> -33:20
label1.Text = $"{minutes/60:0}:{Math.Abs(minutes)%60:00}";

public static void Main()
{
//assigning values to variable
double minutes = 2000;
TimeSpan tspan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(minutes); //converting minutes to timespan
string res1 = (int)tspan.TotalHours +" Hours " + tspan.Minutes +" Minutes";
string res2= (int)tspan.TotalHours + ":"+tspan.Minutes;
string res3= Convert.ToInt32(tspan.TotalHours) + "."+tspan.Minutes +" Hours";
Console.WriteLine(res1);
Console.WriteLine(res2);
Console.WriteLine(res3);
}
Output:
33 Hours 20 Minutes
33:20
33.20 Hours

Do it manually and use
string.Format("{0:D2}:{1:D2}",(int)minutes/60, (int)minutes%60)
or without casting:
string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}", minutes/60, minutes%60)
Since C#6 with String Interpolation:
$"{minutes/60:00}:{minutes%60:00}"

How can I parse minutes to seconds?

I want to parse the following input "10:05" in format "minutes:seconds" in seconds. So 10:05 should be 10 * 60 = 600 + 5 = 605. How can I manage to do this with code ?

Just split the string, parse the numbers, and do your calculation:
string s = "10:05";
var parts = s.Split(':');
int seconds = int.Parse(parts[0]) * 60 + int.Parse(parts[1]);
Console.WriteLine(seconds); // 605
You can also use TimeSpan.Parse in this case which is able to parse this format if you add a hour part in front of it. You can then use the TotalSeconds property to get your desired result:
double seconds = TimeSpan.Parse("00:" + s).TotalSeconds;
Console.WriteLine(seconds); // 605

#poke is close, but you asked for seconds, thus:
string s= "10:05";
double seconds = TimeSpan.Parse("00:" + s).TotalSeconds;
Returns 605.

There are many ways to do this. Here are just a couple. If you know that the format is always going to be mm:ss then you could use the TimeSpan class, the ParseExact method, and the TotalSeconds property. Here's an example of how you could do it.
TimeSpan ts = TimeSpan.ParseExact(mytime, "mm:ss", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
double seconds = ts.TotalSeconds;
If you have a bunch of different formats that can show up you can use the ParseExact and provide multiple time formats. Here's an example that takes a few formats.
//HH -> 24 hour format always with 2 digits ("08" = 8 hours)
// H -> 24 hour format with as few digits as possible ("8" = 8 hours)
//mm -> minutes always with 2 digits ("08" = 8 minutes)
// m -> minutes with as few digits as possible ("8" = 8 minutes)
//ss -> seconds always with 2 digits ("08" = 8 seconds)
// s -> seconds with as few digits as possible ("8" = 8 seconds)
string[] formats = new string["HH:mm:ss", "H:mm:ss", "mm:ss", "m:ss", "ss", "s"];
TimeSpan ts = TimeSpan.ParseExact(mytime, formats, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
double seconds = ts.TotalSeconds;
Here's a link to the MSDN documentation for the TimeSpan class. Check out the Methods and Properties for the TimeSpan class. Here's a link on formatting time strings.
The other way is to manually split the input string into the two parts and use the Convert class to convert each part into integers or doubles.
string[] timeparts = mytime.Split(':');
string minstr = timeparts[0];
string secstr = timeparts[1];
int mins = Convert.ToInt32(minstr);
int secs = Convert.ToInt32(secstr);
int seconds = mins * 60 + secs;
Here's the documentation for the Convert class.

c# TimeSpan Converting Minutes to Hours

I am converting minutes into hours. So if I have minutes = 12534. The result should be 208:54. The below code fails to bring this result.
TimeSpan spWorkMin = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(12534);
string workHours = spWorkMin.ToString(#"hh\:mm");
Console.WriteLine(workHours);
The result is 16:54.
How to get it correct?

var totalMinutes = 12534;
Console.WriteLine("{0:00}:{1:00}", totalMinutes / 60, totalMinutes % 60);
Or
var totalMinutes = 12534;
var time = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(totalMinutes);
Console.WriteLine("{0:00}:{1:00}", (int)time.TotalHours, time.Minutes);
See https://dotnetfiddle.net/gYEsj2 to play with this

The correct way to use is not using the ToString overload of DateTime – because there is no possibility to show the TotalHours there – but the string.Format method:
string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}", (int)spWorkMin.TotalHours, spWorkMin.Minutes);

You need use TimeSpan.TotalHours Property
The TotalHours property represents whole and fractional hours, whereas the Hours property represents whole hours.
TimeSpan spWorkMin = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(12534);
string workHours = spWorkMin.ToString(#"hh\:mm");
Console.WriteLine(spWorkMin.TotalHours);
https://dotnetfiddle.net/JRCLra

The format specifier hh will show the hour part, which is not the total hours. You have to manually create a string using TotalHours cast into ints to show it as you want and add the minutes to that.

TimeSpan spWorkMin = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(12534);
string workHours = string.Format("{0}:{1}", (int)spWorkMin.TotalHours, spWorkMin.Minutes);
Console.WriteLine(workHours);

From MSDN documentation:
The "hh" custom format specifier outputs the value of the TimeSpan::Hours property, which represents the number of whole hours in the time interval that is not counted as part of its day component.
One quick way of getting the result you want would be something like the following:
TimeSpan spWorkMin = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(12534);
string workHours = string.Format("{0}:{1:00}", (int)spWorkMin.TotalHours, spWorkMin.Minutes);
Console.WriteLine(workHours);

Personnaly I use this:
public static double MinutsTohHours(int Minuti)
{
double Tempo = 0;
Tempo = ((double)(Minuti % 60) / 100);
var n = (double)Minuti / 60;
return Math.Floor((double)Minuti / 60) + Tempo;
}

using System;
var days = 1;
var hours = 23; //max 23
var min = 12; //max 59
var TotalMin = (days*24*60)+(hours*60)+min;
Console.WriteLine("TotalMins "+ TotalMin);
//return back to the original days,hours,minutes
var Days = (TotalMin/(24*60));
var _minutes = (TotalMin%(60*60));
var Hours = (_minutes/60);
var Minutes = _minutes - (Hours*60);
Console.WriteLine($"{Days} , {Hours} , {Minutes}");

Calculate total number of Hours asp.net c#

I have done the following piece of code to add the Hours and thus calculate total number of hours.
string hour1="48.40";
string hour2 = "45.35";
TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(int.Parse(hour1.Split('.')[0]),int.Parse(hour1.Split('.')[1]),
0);
TimeSpan ts1 = new TimeSpan(int.Parse(hour2.Split('.')[0]),int.Parse(hour2.Split('.')[1]),
0);
Double total = (ts.TotalHours) + (ts1.TotalHours);
The problem here is when i add hour1 and hour2 the total comes as 64.25 which actually should have been 64.15
This is just one of the test case, if i put hour1= 40.00 and hour2= 40.10 than the value in the total comes as 80.166666666666657 which actually should have been 80.10
can anyone help me understand what am i doing wrong and what is the correct way to add HOUR and get total number of hours ?

Actually you're getting correct result - just mixing minutes and fractional parts of hours.
80 hrs 10 mins is 80 1/6 hours
64 hours 15 mins is 64 1/4 hours

It gets a little strange when you have timestamps put into strings. But if you need to do it like this, this code should work
string hour1="48.40";
string hour2 = "45.35";
//find total number of minutes for each hour above
int minutes1 = int.Parse(hour1.Split('.')[0])*60+int.Parse(hour1.Split('.')[1]);
int minutes2 = int.Parse(hour2.Split('.')[0])*60+int.Parse(hour2.Split('.')[1]);
//calculate back to hours and minutes and reassemble as a string
string result = (minutes1+minutes2)/60+"."+(minutes1+minutes2)%60;
And I hope you are expecting 94.15 and not 64.15 in your example above.

You may use next code to get result you would like to:
string hour1 = "48.40";
string hour2 = "45.35";
TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(int.Parse(hour1.Split('.')[0]), int.Parse(hour1.Split('.')[1]),
0);
TimeSpan ts1 = new TimeSpan(int.Parse(hour2.Split('.')[0]), int.Parse(hour2.Split('.')[1]),
0);
TimeSpan total = ts + ts1;
int hours = (int)total.TotalHours;
int minutes = total.Minutes;

How to Round to the Nearest 0.5?

in my application
Ex 1: Start time 12.30
(-)End time 16.00 here i get the value as 3.7 but i need to show this 3.7 as 3.5 in my application
Ex 2: Start time 12.00
(-)End time 16.00 here i get the value as 4.0 here there is no need to alter the value
(1.7,2.7,3.7,4.7,.... etc ) as to be represented as(1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,.. etc )
so how to write an function for this where if the vale contains(1.7,2.7) i should change to 1.5,2.5
or if it contains 1.0,2.0 then there is no need to replace any value?

This extension method ought to do the job:
public decimal RoundToNearestHalf(this decimal value)
{
return Math.Round(value * 2) / 2;
}
var num1 = (3.7).RoundToNearestHalf(); // 3.5
var num1 = (4.0).RoundToNearestHalf(); // 4.0
I've used the decimal type in the code because it seems you want to maintain base 10 precision. If you don't, then float/double would do just as well, of course.

Use the DateTime type. Subtracting DateTime types returns a TimeSpan. Use TimeSpan.TotalHours to get your result. E.g.:-
var x = DateTime.Parse("12:30");
var y = DateTime.Parse("16:00");
Console.WriteLine((y - x).TotalHours);

Use DateTime type to work with time. Example:
string time1 = "12:30";
string time2 = "16:00";
TimeSpan diff = DateTime.Parse(time2)-DateTime.Parse(time2);
string diffString = diff.ToString("hh:mm"); // will be 03:30

Multiply hours with 60 and add minutes. You'll get total number of minutes.
12hours and 30 minutes = 720 + 30 = 750 minutes.
16 hours = 960 minutes.
Subtract the first value from the other and divide it by 60
(960 - 750) / 60 = 210 / 60 = 3.5

You should use TimeSpan and round it off:
TimeSpan startTime = new TimeSpan(12, 30, 0);
TimeSpan endTime = new TimeSpan(16, 0, 0);
TimeSpan span = endTime - startTime;
double totalHours = span.TotalHours;
double roundedToHalf = Math.Round(totalHours * 2) / 2;
Console.WriteLine(roundedToHalf);
UPDATE:
If the start and end time are from different dates, you should use DateTime for startTime and endTime.

If the values in your question represent times you can't do decimal arithmetic with them and expect time values as results.
You need to manipulate the values as times
I don't know C#, but it must have some time functions.

Have the times as DateTime then use Timspan to find the difference between the two times?

Times are not integers or floats. You can't work with them as if they are - you wouldn't try to do integer math using the String class, would you?
DateTime and TimeSpan are you friends for this kind of data manipulation.

You can use the C# Floor and Ceil method of the Math Class. Read more about it in the below URLs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.math.ceiling(VS.71).aspx
http://dotnetperls.com/math-floor

string i = "2.0";
if (i == "2.3" || i == "3.3" || i == "4.3")
{
string strReplace = i.Replace(".3", ".5");
}
else
{
string strReplace = i;
}