>>Great. I just cobbled things together as a 'proof of concept' (except all it did at first was prove that it didn't work :-{ )
>
>Succeeded anyway
>
>>Now it looks good enough for production code!
>>Next useful thing would be extension methods for DateTime to add and subtract DateTimeSpan....
>>
>
>Mods
>(1) Changed property MilliSeconds to Milliseconds and _MilliSeconds to Milliseconds - more in line with the Milliseconds of DateTime
>
>(2) Added a constructor that accepts DateTimeOffset
>

>		public DateTimeSpan(DateTimeOffset start, DateTimeOffset end)
>			: this(start.UtcDateTime, end.UtcDateTime)
>		{
>		}
>

>
>(3) Extension methods Add and Subtract for DateTime and DateTimeOffset
>

>	public static partial class ExtensionMethods_DateTime
>	{
>		//______________________________________________________________________
>		public static DateTime Add(this DateTime dt, DateTimeSpan dts)
>		{
>			return dt.AddYears(dts.Years)
>				.AddMonths(dts.Months)
>				.AddDays(dts.Days)
>				.AddHours(dts.Hours)
>				.AddMinutes(dts.Minutes)
>				.AddSeconds(dts.Seconds)
>				.AddMilliseconds(dts.Milliseconds);
>		}
>		//______________________________________________________________________
>		public static DateTime Subtract(this DateTime dt, DateTimeSpan dts)
>		{
>			return dt.AddYears(-dts.Years)
>				.AddMonths(-dts.Months)
>				.AddDays(-dts.Days)
>				.AddHours(-dts.Hours)
>				.AddMinutes(-dts.Minutes)
>				.AddSeconds(-dts.Seconds)
>				.AddMilliseconds(-dts.Milliseconds);
>		}
>		//______________________________________________________________________
>	
>	}
>

>
>

>	public static partial class ExtensionMethods_DateTimeOffset
>	{
>		//______________________________________________________________________
>		public static DateTimeOffset Add(this DateTimeOffset dto, DateTimeSpan dts)
>		{
>			return dto.AddYears(dts.Years)
>				.AddMonths(dts.Months)
>				.AddDays(dts.Days)
>				.AddHours(dts.Hours)
>				.AddMinutes(dts.Minutes)
>				.AddSeconds(dts.Seconds)
>				.AddMilliseconds(dts.Milliseconds);
>		}
>		//______________________________________________________________________
>		public static DateTimeOffset Subtract(this DateTimeOffset dto, DateTimeSpan dts)
>		{
>			return dto.AddYears(-dts.Years)
>				.AddMonths(-dts.Months)
>				.AddDays(-dts.Days)
>				.AddHours(-dts.Hours)
>				.AddMinutes(-dts.Minutes)
>				.AddSeconds(-dts.Seconds)
>				.AddMilliseconds(-dts.Milliseconds);
>		}
>		//______________________________________________________________________
>	
>	}
>

Now, since neither of us need the functionality, all we have to do is to sell it the Michel :-}