Difference in minutes between two dates in C#

To calculate the difference in minutes between 2 dates we substract DateTime objects and place value in TimeSpan object, Finally we get minutes using TotalMinutes property.

Example

using System;

public class Program
{
	public static void Main()
	{
    	DateTime date1 = new DateTime(2018, 8, 17, 11, 14, 25);
    	DateTime date2 = DateTime.Now; 
    	TimeSpan ts = date2 - date1;
    	Console.WriteLine("No. of Minutes = {0}", ts.TotalMinutes);
	}
}

Output

No. of Minutes = 1842911.5518264268

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