A type for Date only in C# - why is there no Date type?

Question

In our C# project we have the need for representing a date without a time. I know of the existence of the DateTime, however, it incorporates a time of day as well. I

Answer 1

Yeah, also System.DateTime is sealed. I've seen some folks play games with this by creating a custom class just to get the string value of the time as mentioned by earlier posts, stuff like:

class CustomDate
{
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }
    public bool IsTimeOnly { get; private set; }

    public CustomDate(bool isTimeOnly)
    {
        this.IsTimeOnly = isTimeOnly;
    }

    public string GetValue()
    {
        if (IsTimeOnly)
        {
            return Date.ToShortTimeString();
        }

        else
        {
            return Date.ToString();
        }
    }
}

This is maybe unnecessary, since you could easily just extract GetShortTimeString from a plain old DateTime type without a new class