Bar Index by TimeSpan

[LoganJKTrader]

Is there a method to get a bars index based on a timespan if the chart loaded is a time based bartype.
ie if (Bars.BarPeriod == BarsPeriod.Minute) { int myInt = MethodConvertToIndex(myTimeSpan); }
I am creating an indie, a timespan is defined on chart, & when the timespan period begins the start to end period(timespan) is defined on the chart.
Am I then able, when the current bar has reached that timespan, to determine where the timespan ends, if a bartype it time based, to locate the ending bars index?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello LoganJKTrader,

A TimeSpan is span between two date times and is a number of years, number of hours, number of minutes, number of seconds, spanning between two datetimes.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timespan?view=netframework-4.8

Are you trying to create a DateTime input control with time?
https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...92#post1050892
https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...ty#post1050873
https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...89#post1052289

Bars.GetBar() requires a DateTime object.
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nt8/getbar.htm

You could create a new DateTime object with todays date and use the hour and minutes from the timespan.

new DateTime(Time[0].Year, Time[0].Month, Time[0].Day, myTimeSpan.Hours, myTimeSpan.Minutes, myTimeSpan.Seconds)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/do...tframework-4.8
https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...nt8/getbar.htm

"Am I then able, when the current bar has reached that timespan"

I'm not quite on what you are meaning by this.

[LoganJKTrader]

Hello Chelsa,

The idea you mentioned is fairly well, I had come across it & as you mentioned was the solution to getting a start & end point by bar index while using a TimeSpan variable/object.

Thank you.