how to retrieve time as time itself rather than date time while reading to datatable from excel sheet via C#

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How to retrieve time as time itself rather than date time while reading to datatable from excel sheet via C# Code behind

Posted 24-Apr-13 10:07am

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Richard C Bishop 24-Apr-13 16:16pm

DateTime has a .ToString() method where you can specify the display. Use "hh:mm:ss" to get only the time.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-13 16:24pm

Sorry, a bad idea. One could take TimeOfDay, for example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.timeofday.aspx
Anything, but not working with string representing time instead of time itself. How could it help?
—SA

Richard C Bishop 24-Apr-13 16:28pm

You are right, as usual. Thank you for the lesson.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-13 16:29pm

You are always very welcome.
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-13 16:24pm

What does it mean: "reading to database"? Finally, reading or writing?
—SA

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2013-04-24T11:32:00

Excel stores time values as Date[^] (DateTime[^] in C#). See here: Data types in Data Models (Excel)[^]

I think you need to format date as "time": Custom Date and Time Format Strings[^], String Format For DateTime (C#)[^]

C#

DateTime date1 = new DateTime(2013, 4, 24, 19, 27, 15, 18);
CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;

Console.WriteLine(date1.ToString("hh:mm:ss.f", ci));
// Displays 07:27:15.0
Console.WriteLine(date1.ToString("hh:mm:ss.F", ci));
// Displays 07:27:15