Question: To get TimeSpan in minutes from given two Dates I am doing the following

```
int totalMinutes = 0;
TimeSpan outresult = end.Subtract(start);
totalMinutes = totalMinutes + ((end.Subtract(start).Days) * 24 * 60) + ((end.Subtract(start).Hours) * 60) +(end.Subtract(start).Minutes);
return totalMinutes;

```

Is there a better way?

Answer: 
```
TimeSpan span = end-start;
double totalMinutes = span.TotalMinutes;

```
Why not just doing it this way?

```
DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(2009, 6, 1);
DateTime dt2 = DateTime.Now;
double totalminutes = (dt2 - dt1).TotalMinutes;

```

Hope this helps.