Units of time when using ToBinary() method of DateTime

WBurgMo

Does any one know the units of time used by the ToBinary method of DateTime? For example

long start = DateTime.Now.ToBinary();
Sleep(1000);
long elapsed = DateTime.Now.ToBinary()-start;

The variable elapsed will be in the range of 10,000,000. What does this value represent? Is it tenths of a micro second or some other unit of time? Thanks James johnson

N a v a n e e t h

WBurgMo wrote:

The variable elapsed will be in the range of 10,000,000.

I am not sure it will be in this range. Value you are getting is a signed 64-bit number.

WBurgMo wrote:

Is it tenths of a micro second or some other unit of time?

Here is what MSDN says, Serializes the current DateTime object to a 64-bit binary value that subsequently can be used to recreate the DateTime object.

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