I want to achieve the converse of this, that is, I want to convert a string
with format hh:mm tt
to a TimeSpan
with zeroed seconds.
For example, 09:45 pm
is converted to 21:45:00
.
The simplest approach would probably be to parse it as a DateTime
using DateTime.ParseExact
, and then use the TimeOfDay
to exact the TimeSpan
.
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(text,
"hh:mm tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
TimeSpan span = dateTime.TimeOfDay;
It's odd to see a leading 0 on a number of hours when you're also specifying an am/pm designator though. You might want "h" instead of "hh" in the format string, to allow "9:45 pm" instead of "09:45 pm".
(I'd also argue that it's a strange use of TimeSpan
in the first place, but then the .NET date/time types are somewhat messed up in my view. I'd recommend using Noda Time, but I'm biased :)