DateTime.AddMinutes

[sharon]

does sombody knows why myDateTime.AddMinutes doesn't do anything? i am trying to do: DateTime myDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime("18/09/2002 13:00"); myDateTime.AddMinutes(40); but nothing happen to this myDateTime?? thanks in advance, sharon

[Paul Riley]

sharon wrote: DateTime myDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime("18/09/2002 13:00"); myDateTime.AddMinutes(40); Try myDateTime = myDateTime.AddMinutes(40) The Add... methods only return another DateTime, they don't modify the object. This is pretty much common across the .NET Framework. Paul

[sharon]

thank you very much, it was very helpfull, sharon