LINQ orderby on date field in descending order

Question

How can I change the LINQ query in the code below to sort by date in descending order (latest first, earliest last)?

using System;
using System.Linq;
using S         


        

Answer 1

I was trying to also sort by a DateTime field descending and this seems to do the trick:

var ud = (from d in env 
     orderby -d.ReportDate.Ticks                 
     select  d.ReportDate.ToString("yyyy-MMM") ).Distinct();