C# - total minutes passed today up until now

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Hi there,

A question given to me is asking me to return the total minutes passed today until now (i.e. the time right now).

I know the right code format is myDateTime.TimeOfDay.TotalMinutes.
which will give us the number of minutes that have passed in the day represented by myDateTime starting from midnight.

When I tried the code below, I got an error (squiggly red line) saying cannot implicity convert type 'double' to 'int'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?). What does this mean and can someone correct my code please? The right answer shouldn't be long as it is a simple training course. I know I'm not too far off from the right answer.

Thanks.

What I have tried:

{
        /****************************************************************
        
        Return how many minutes have passed today up to now.
        
        *****************************************************************/
        public static int GetTotalMinutes()
        {
          return DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.TotalMinutes; 
        }
    }
}

Posted 11-Jul-17 0:39am

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Updated 11-Jul-17 0:46am

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F-ES Sitecore · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-11T00:46:00

Solution 1

public static int GetTotalMinutes()
{
    return (int)DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.TotalMinutes;
}

Posted 11-Jul-17 0:46am

F-ES Sitecore

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Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 6:52am

Thanks! It was correct. Their answer was
return (int) DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.TotalMinutes.Round(0);

Do you know the significance of the Round(0)?

F-ES Sitecore 11-Jul-17 8:41am

It'll just explictly control how the decimal is converted into an integer, eg is 1.6 1 as an integer or 2. If you use the cast (int) then the framework makes these decisions.

Richard Deeming 11-Jul-17 11:26am

Unless they've defined some custom extension methods[^] somewhere, that's going to produce a compiler error. The TotalMinutes[^] property returns a Double[^], which doesn't have a method called Round.

F-ES Sitecore 11-Jul-17 11:43am

Yeah I know, I CBA going into it lol. I'm not spending my time explaining incredibly basic things to people that they should really know.

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 11:45am

Wow, the arrogance. You are good at coding, okay, I get it. And there are things I could teach you which you probably know nothing about. Be humble lol

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 11:45am

Thank you for attempting to explain Richard.

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 11:51am

And if you don't want to explain basic things, then don't comment. Acting like you are God's gift to the earth, get over yourself!

F-ES Sitecore 11-Jul-17 11:58am

Part of the rules for posting (which I'm sure you read) are that you do basic research before posting, such as use a search engine. I just googled the error message "cannot implicitly convert type 'double' to 'int'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)" and the first hit showed your situation and two ways of solving it. Had you have just done that you wouldn't have had to ask this question. To be a coder you've going to have to be academic and be able to research problems yourself to a certain extent. People don't really like when questions like this are asked where the solution is easily found, so if you want to join a community where people do answer any questions you have then questions like this are not the way to do it.

Without a good knowledge of the foundations of coding like types\casting etc you're going to struggle to anything that is any way decent and if you have to ask questions for every little thing people will eventually stop answering them.

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 12:01pm

Okay, and if you knew my search history on my browser, it would speak for itself. It seems like you have your head up your backside. You clearly have excelled at everything. The funny thing is, you never know who you are speaking to or how accomplished they are in life, over the internet. You are telling me to be academic lol. Anyway, let me leave you to it..

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 12:02pm

I'll probably turn out to be a better coder than you. You must have forget everyone starts somewhere. Peace out

F-ES Sitecore 11-Jul-17 12:05pm

Yeah, I started with a book so I didn't have to ask questions like this.

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 12:10pm

And how accomplished are you in other areas of life? I can tell you are not, because of how stuck up you are. I'm doing great on my learning curve. I'll get answers by any means, even if means to piss people off. I don't give a damn. That's part of why I get places in life.

How many languages do you speak? It's okay, I'll wait....

Member 13302374 11-Jul-17 12:11pm

This conversation is funny to me. I can take someone who is trying to learn seriously. But someone who has knowledge and acts like an ass, I can't respect. Sorry