How to have DateTime to start at midnight???

[Jon S via DotNetMonster.com]

Hi all

If the date and time on my computer is 23/02/06 15:43:20 and I do the
following:

DateTime dt;
dt = DateTime.today();

The variable 'dt' has the value '23/02/06 15:43:20'.
How can I make it so the time will always be 00:00:00. For example:

'dt' has the value '23/02/06 00:00:00'

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jon,

Try this:
DateTime dt = DateTime.Today().Date();

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[William Stacey [MVP]]

Today does that. Are you not seeing same results?

DateTime dt = DateTime.Today;

Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString());


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William Stacey [MVP]

| Hi all
|
| If the date and time on my computer is 23/02/06 15:43:20 and I do the
| following:
|
| DateTime dt;
| dt = DateTime.today();
|
| The variable 'dt' has the value '23/02/06 15:43:20'.
| How can I make it so the time will always be 00:00:00. For example:
|
| 'dt' has the value '23/02/06 00:00:00'
|
| Thanks in advance.
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[Otis Mukinfus]

Today does that. Are you not seeing same results?

DateTime dt = DateTime.Today;

Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString());

I've always done it with DateTime.Today. I wonder what's going on there?

Otis Mukinfus
http://www.arltex.com
http://www.tomchilders.com

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

If the date and time on my computer is 23/02/06 15:43:20 and I do the
following:

DateTime dt;
dt = DateTime.today();

The variable 'dt' has the value '23/02/06 15:43:20'.
How can I make it so the time will always be 00:00:00. For example:

'dt' has the value '23/02/06 00:00:00'

I don't believe you're seeing what you think you're seeing. As other
posters have mentioned, DateTime.Today already sets the time to
midnight.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

 

[Code Monkey]

Try something like :

DateTime dt = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month,
DateTime.Now.Day, 0, 0, 0);

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Try something like :

DateTime dt = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month,
DateTime.Now.Day, 0, 0, 0);

That's actually quite dangerous - because there's a possibility that
the date will change between those three invocations of DateTime.Now.

What's wrong with DateTime.Today though?

Jon

 

[Code Monkey]

True.

How about:

DateTime dt1 = DateTime.Now;
DateTime dt = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, 0, 0, 0);

One invocation of DateTime.Now.

Nothing wrong with DateTime.Today, guess it boils down to personal
preference - from MSDN "...A DateTime set to the date of this instance,
with the time part set to 00:00:00..."
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...f/html/frlrfsystemdatetimeclasstodaytopic.asp).