Equivalent of Math.Min & Math.Max for Dates?

Question

What\'s the quickest and easiest way to get the Min (or Max) value between two dates? Is there an equivalent to Math.Min (& Math.Max) for dates?

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Answer 1

public static class DateTool
{
    public static DateTime Min(DateTime x, DateTime y)
    {
        return (x.ToUniversalTime() < y.ToUniversalTime()) ? x : y;
    }
    public static DateTime Max(DateTime x, DateTime y)
    {
        return (x.ToUniversalTime() > y.ToUniversalTime()) ? x : y;
    }
}

This allows the dates to have different 'kinds' and returns the instance that was passed in (not returning a new DateTime constructed from Ticks or Milliseconds).

[TestMethod()]
    public void MinTest2()
    {
        DateTime x = new DateTime(2001, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, DateTimeKind.Utc);
        DateTime y = new DateTime(2001, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, DateTimeKind.Local);

        //Presumes Local TimeZone adjustment to UTC > 0
        DateTime actual = DateTool.Min(x, y);
        Assert.AreEqual(x, actual);
    }

Note that this test would fail East of Greenwich...