How do i get from Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() to a DateTime?

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Simon picture Simon · Sep 17, 2009 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

Duplicate of: How to get timestamp of tick precision in .NET / C#?
How do i get from Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() to a DateTime

Assume Stopwatch.IsHighResolution is true

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Jon Skeet picture Jon Skeet · Sep 17, 2009

If it's a high resolution counter, there's no guarantee that the value has any correlation with the real time - for example, it may well be "ticks since the computer booted." For a non-high resolution timer, you could use new DateTime(Stopwatch.GetTimestamp()) but that won't necessarily give a useful value for a high resolution timer. (It certainly doesn't on my box.)

What are you trying to use this for? The idea of Stopwatch is to measure intervals of time.

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