Time & Date

A Friendly DateTime Formatter
Many websites have the ability show a date and time formatted as "2 minutes ago", "1 hour ago", or "Yesterday at 2:30P". Here's a class I wrote to format dates and times this way. It even supports dates and times in the future.
By Jonathan Wood on Friday, March 25, 2011

Creating a User-Friendly TimeSpan String
The .NET TimeSpan class is great for keeping track of the difference between two instances of DateTime. However, while TimeSpan has a lot of formatting options, none of them produce a very user-friendly result. Here's a class I wrote to produce a much friendly description from a TimeSpan.
By Jonathan Wood on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Formatting DateTime Ranges
The .NET framework has many options for formatting dates and times. However, it doesn't provide a lot of support for formatting date and time ranges. This simple class provides the missing functionality.
By Jonathan Wood on Wednesday, July 30, 2014

C++ High-Resolution Timer
This simple class uses the highest-resolution timer available under Windows. It's perfect for finding bottlenecks in your code or for simply comparing different computer tasks.
By Jonathan Wood on Wednesday, December 22, 2010