Hi,

I am trying to total the sum of n number of times. In my project the customer will enter the time with a decimal point instead of colon.
I am doing the following:
a) First converting to minutes values and adding all the values and then converting the result back to HH.mm format.

While doing so I am finding a strange problem. Can anyone help me???

When I was trying to subtract (0.57 - 0) I was getting the result as 0.569999 which later rounding to just 0.56. This is happening even for 0.58. But for the other numbers i am getting correct result.

Is there any other easier way to sum the time values perfectly?


Aijaz

How are you rounding the number and what type are you storing the values in?

0.569999 should round properly to 0.57


Kep.

Since the customer will enter the values in text boxes, Its in string value.
For example: textBox1.Text = ".57" textBox2.text = "" etc which has to be added and display the resume in another textBox.
I am first parsing the textBox value to float.
Then typecasting the int part as Hr and subtracting the full float value with Hr to get the minutes as (0.57 - 0). But I am getting the result as 0.569999 and then by using Decimal.Round(T1.ToString(),2) I am getting 0.56 instead of 0.57.

Aijaz

The reason that Decimal.Round(0.5699999, 2) rounds to 0.56 is because the Decimal.Round method uses a technique called rounding to even (or rounding to nearest).

This use of rounding ensures that the number always rounds to the nearest even number (at least that's what it says in the help).

I recommend you try using Math.Round(0.569999, 2). This method rounds the way you are expecting (I think).

Kep.