C# time in microseconds

Question

I am searching how to format time including microseconds. I'm using class DateTime, it allowes (using properties) to get data till miliseconds, which is not enougth. I tried using Ticks, but I didn't know how to translate it to microseconds.

Accepted Answer

You can use `"ffffff"` in a format string to represent microseconds:

```
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss.ffffff"));
```

To convert a number of ticks to microseconds, just use:

```
long microseconds = ticks / (TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond / 1000);
```

If these don't help you, please provide more information about exactly what you're trying to do.

EDIT: I originally multiplied `ticks` by 1000 to avoid losing accuracy when dividing `TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond` by 1000. However, It turns out that the `TicksPerMillisecond` is actually a constant value of 10,000 - so you can divide by 1000 with no problem, and in fact we could just use:

```
const long TicksPerMicrosecond = 10;

...

long microseconds = ticks / TicksPerMicrosecond;
```

C# time in microseconds

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