Why isn"t there multiply operator for TimeSpan?

I've run across many situations where I want to store the time delta
as a TimeSpan (e.g. sampling interval) and then I want to skip every
3rd sample so I want to multiple the delta by the int 3 but I'm forced
to multiple the ticks by 3 and then construct a new TimeSpan with the
resultant ticks.

Re: Why isn"t there multiply operator for TimeSpan?

See here for a similar conversation:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.lan guages.csharp/browse_thread/thread/828d5b8de352a113/2b3f24d5 da0b1bdf

Marc

Re: Why isn"t there multiply operator for TimeSpan?

Most likely because a TimeSpan is a DateTime object. Although it can be
expressed as a straight number, it is not internally represented that way.
It could also be that your need was not envisioned.

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"Israel" wrote in message
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> I've run across many situations where I want to store the time delta
> as a TimeSpan (e.g. sampling interval) and then I want to skip every
> 3rd sample so I want to multiple the delta by the int 3 but I'm forced
> to multiple the ticks by 3 and then construct a new TimeSpan with the
> resultant ticks.
>

Re: Why isn"t there multiply operator for TimeSpan?

Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) wrote:
> Most likely because a TimeSpan is a DateTime object. Although it can be
> expressed as a straight number, it is not internally represented that way.
> It could also be that your need was not envisioned.

No, a TimeSpan isn't a DateTime object, and internally it *is*
represented as a number - an Int64.

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