Date vs DateTime

Question

I am working on a program that requires the date of an event to get returned.

I am looking for a Date, not a DateTime.

Is there

Answer 1

DateTime has a Date property that you can use to isolate the date part. The ToString method also does a good job of only displaying the Date part when the time part is empty.

Answer 2

The DateTime object has a Property which returns only the date portion of the value.

    public static void Main()
{
    System.DateTime _Now = DateAndTime.Now;
    Console.WriteLine("The Date and Time is " + _Now);
    //will return the date and time
    Console.WriteLine("The Date Only is " + _Now.Date);
    //will return only the date
    Console.Write("Press any key to continue . . . ");
    Console.ReadKey(true);
}

Answer 3

There is no Date DataType.

However you can use DateTime.Date to get just the Date.

E.G.

DateTime date = DateTime.Now.Date;

Answer 4

For this, you need to use the date, but ignore the time value.

Ordinarily a date would be a DateTime with time of 00:00:00

The DateTime type has a .Date property which returns the DateTime with the time value set as above.

Answer 5

I created a simple Date struct for times when you need a simple date without worrying about time portion, timezones, local vs. utc, etc.

Date today = Date.Today;
Date yesterday = Date.Today.AddDays(-1);
Date independenceDay = Date.Parse("2013-07-04");

independenceDay.ToLongString();    // "Thursday, July 4, 2013"
independenceDay.ToShortString();   // "7/4/2013"
independenceDay.ToString();        // "7/4/2013"
independenceDay.ToString("s");     // "2013-07-04"
int july = independenceDay.Month;  // 7

https://github.com/claycephus/csharp-date

Answer 6

Unfortunately, not in the .Net BCL. Dates are usually represented as a DateTime object with the time set to midnight.

As you can guess, this means that you have all the attendant timezone issues around it, even though for a Date object you'd want absolutely no timezone handling.