Date vs DateTime

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.


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


No there isn't. DateTime represents some point in time that is composed of a date and a time. However, you can retrieve the date part via the Date property (which is another DateTime with the time set to 00:00:00).

And you can retrieve individual date properties via Day, Month and Year.

UPDATE: In .NET 6 the types DateOnly and TimeOnly are introduced that represent just a date or just a time.

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