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A .NET DateTime tick represents 100 nanoseconds. The tick is the unit of measurement for DateTime and TimeSpan values. Common conversions include 1 tick equals 0.1 microseconds, 0.0001 milliseconds, or 0.0000001 seconds. While the resolution of DateTime values is theoretically high, the actual resolution at which DateTime.Now updates is around 10 milliseconds.

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A .NET DateTime tick represents 100 nanoseconds. The tick is the unit of measurement for DateTime and TimeSpan values. Common conversions include 1 tick equals 0.1 microseconds, 0.0001 milliseconds, or 0.0000001 seconds. While the resolution of DateTime values is theoretically high, the actual resolution at which DateTime.Now updates is around 10 milliseconds.

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How long is a .NET DateTime/TimeSpan tick?

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How long is a .NET DateTime/TimeSpan tick?

53 .net datetime time timespan

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Jason Kresowaty
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Although currently a tick is 100 nanoseconds, it is best not to rely on this as an absolute. Rather, use ' TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond ' (or any of the
other TicksPerXxx member values)
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9 This is true. Don't hard code these in your code. However, they are absolute and will not be changed by Microsoft. The reason for this post is that sometimes
one needs to do this math on a calculator and I wanted to make this chart available. – Jason Kresowaty Jun 5, 2009 at 17:17

Example creating a 10 second timespan: new TimeSpan(TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond * 10) – nedstark179 May 14, 2021 at 12:48
The tick is the unit of granularity for the .NET DateTime and TimeSpan value types.

It has the following common conversions:


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1 tick = 100 nanoseconds
= 0.1 microseconds
= 0.0001 milliseconds
= 0.0000001 seconds

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Dec 28, 2013 at 21:48 answered Jun 5, 2009 at 15:26
Colonel Panic Jason Kresowaty
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2 You answered your own question one minute after posting it? – Lance McNearney Jun 5, 2009 at 16:24

41 uh, StackOverflow encourages this sort of thing in the FAQ, dont down vote him for that. see: stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/… – Allen Rice Jun 5, 2009 at
16:46

To quote MSDN:

13 The smallest unit of time is the tick, which is equal to 100 nanoseconds.

Metrology fail.

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Colonel Panic
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Note that, although the theoretical resolution of DateTime.Now is quite high, the resolution - ie how often it is updated - it quite a bit lower.
8 Apparently, on modern systems, DateTime.Now has a resolution of 10 milliseconds... See msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/system.datetime.now.aspx

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