If DateTime is immutable, why does the following work?

Question

I thought I understood what Immutable meant, however I don\'t understand why the following compiles and works:

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;

Console.WriteLine         


        

Answer 1

See this.

Read the description of all those methods. It always says "Returns a new DateTime...". It does not change the current DateTime object, thus it is immutable.

Variable reference is a different thing. Think of it just as a pointer to the actual immutable DateTime object that can be changed to point a different one.