Counting and recording time

[mpm174]

I am new to programming and am taking a class for the final project I want to create a program that keeps track of employee time...rite now i am just thinking of recording the two times and then using an equation to calculate hours..is there a better way?

 

[jmcilhinney]

You can certainly just store the current time at the start and end of a shift and subtract one from the other. That's exactly what you would do if the shift had no breaks. The result of the subtraction would be a TimeSpan object, which has properties to tell you how many days, hours, minutes and seconds elapsed.

 

[alander]

You would need to use TimeSpan object
Its very simple to use
heres an example

dim timeDiff as TimeSpan
timeDiff = time1 - time2

 

[NssB]

You could also make use of the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.aspx




NssB