diff --git a/xml/System/DateTime.xml b/xml/System/DateTime.xml index 3f33553cf0b..f7746bf51fc 100644 --- a/xml/System/DateTime.xml +++ b/xml/System/DateTime.xml @@ -6825,9 +6825,13 @@ The following example demonstrates the . It does not include the number of ticks that are attributable to leap seconds. - - +The value of this property represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 in the Gregorian calendar, which represents . It does not include the number of ticks that are attributable to leap seconds. +If the DateTime object has its `Kind` property set to `Local`, its ticks represent the time elapsed time since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 in the local time as specified by the current time zone setting. +If the `DateTime` object has its `Kind` property set to `Utc`, its ticks represent the time elapsed time since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 in the Coordinated Universal Time. +If the `DateTime` object has its `Kind` property set to `Unspecified`, its ticks represent the time elapsed time since 12:00:00 midnight, January 1, 0001 in the unknown time zone. + +In general, the ticks represent the time according to the time zone specified by the `Kind` property. + ## Examples The following example uses the property to display the number of ticks that have elapsed since the beginning of the twenty-first century and to instantiate a object. The object is then used to display the elapsed time using several other time intervals.