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Willem
Willem

Reputation: 9496

How to save Date Time without the time?

How would i save the date time, with no time or preferably with a time stamp of 12:00, no matter what the time is at that moment?

I dont want to use .ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");, because it will open up a whole lot of new possible errors.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 21914

Answers (6)

Adrian Russell
Adrian Russell

Reputation: 4115

As other posters have said

DateTime.Now.Date

is the way to go. However it is also worth thinking about whether you want to strip out timezone information to prevent problems occurring across different TZ on client\server machines.

You can use

var dateTime = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Date.Ticks, DateTimeKind.Unspecified);

Upvotes: 2

sheikhjabootie
sheikhjabootie

Reputation: 7376

Take a look at this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.today.aspx

If you want the current date, there is a slightly more readable:

DateTime.Today

but for a specific DateTime instance, then: 

myDateTime.Date

Upvotes: 1

VdesmedT
VdesmedT

Reputation: 9113

This will do the trick with a preference to ts.Date

var ts = DateTime.Now;
var dateAtMidnight = ts.Date;
var dateAtNoon = ts.Date.AddHours(12);

Upvotes: 1

Albin Sunnanbo
Albin Sunnanbo

Reputation: 47058

If you have any date

DateTime anyDate = DateTime.Now;
DateTime dateAtNoon = anyDate.Date.AddHours(12);

or if you want today you can use the shortcut

DateTime dateAtNoon = DateTime.Today.AddHours(12);

Upvotes: 1

Aliostad
Aliostad

Reputation: 81700

Use

 DateTime.Now.Date

or for myDate:

 myDate.Date

Upvotes: 1

Mehrdad Afshari
Mehrdad Afshari

Reputation: 422202

DateTime struct has a Date property that should serve your needs:

DateTime dateOnly = dateTime.Date;

Of course, it'll still inevitably contain a time part but you should be able to ignore it.

Upvotes: 15

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