[Mono-list] C# DateTime AddHours

[Patrick Persson]

AddHours gives you a new DateTime instance.
/ patrick

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 19:28, tynman <tyndall at attglobal.net> wrote:

>
> I have run into a mystery using the AddHours function of the C# DateTime
> class. I don't get an error, it just doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> using System;
> using Gtk;
>
> namespace test04
> {
>        class MainClass
>        {
>                public static void Main (string[] args)
>                {
>                        DateTime dtEnd;
>                        double dHrs;
>
>                        dtEnd = new DateTime();
>                        dtEnd = DateTime.Now;
>                        Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0:dddd,
> dd-MMM-yyyy - HH:mm:ss}",
> dtEnd));
>
>                        dHrs = 6;
>                        Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}", dHrs));
>
>                        dtEnd.AddHours(dHrs);
>                        Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0:dddd,
> dd-MMM-yyyy - HH:mm:ss}",
> dtEnd));
>                }
>        }
> }
>
> On my console, I get:
>
> Sunday, 27-Sep-2009 - 10:59:39
> 6
> Sunday, 27-Sep-2009 - 10:59:39
>
> whereas I was expecting the time to change to "16:59:39" after calling the
> AddHours() function.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I'm building with MonoDevelop 2.0, under linux
> 2.6.28.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
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