how to pass list as parameter in function

You should always avoid using List<T> as a parameter. Not only because this pattern reduces the opportunities of the caller to store the data in a different kind of collection, but also the caller has to convert the data into a List first.

Converting an IEnumerable into a List costs O(n) complexity which is absolutely unneccessary. And it also creates a new object.

TL;DR you should always use a proper interface like IEnumerable or IQueryable based on what do you want to do with your collection. ;)

In your case:

public void foo(IEnumerable<DateTime> dateTimes)
{
}

public void SomeMethod(List<DateTime> dates)
{
    // do something
}

You need to do it like this,

void Yourfunction(List<DateTime> dates )
{

}