Convert Datetime to Date and store in DateTime variable

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Hello EveryOne,

I have a very silly question in my mind,

I have declared a DateTime Variable like as below

DateTime curDate=DateTime.Now;

so this returns the output like 21-07-2014 03:45:45

but i want to remove the timestamp of the above date and also want to store it in variable curDate which i mention above

for ex:-

DateTime CurDate=21-07-2014

Note:- I know the method of converting dateTime to Date and store in string but i want to store in Datetime variable

is this possible?

thanks in advance

Posted 21-Jul-14 1:13am

Tilak Rathour

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Atyant Srivastava 21-Jul-14 7:18am

you cant store in datetime as it will have default value.

Tilak Rathour 21-Jul-14 7:19am

ok thanks atyant

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Solution 3

Hi

Use ToShortDateString() method for DateTime class.

DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString().ToString()

Posted 21-Jul-14 1:28am

Sharmanuj

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Rob Philpott 21-Jul-14 7:41am

ToShortDateString().ToString(). Convert a string to a string - why on earth?

Solution 5

You can convert datetime to format
DateTime dt=Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"));

Posted 21-Jul-14 2:49am

tyagimanoj12

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lukeer 21-Jul-14 8:56am

You have a DateTime and suggest to format it to a string and parse that right away back to DateTime? Really?

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Rob Philpott · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-21T01:40:00

Sounds like there are two things being mixed up here.

Firstly, to get today's date use DateTime.Today rather than DateTime.Now. Alternatively, you can use DateTime.Now.Date.

This is still a DateTime and hence has a time component, but it is always midnight.

If you want to display this without the time component, then specify that in your string formatting.

Pheonyx · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-21T01:21:00

The "DateTime" object always has a "Time" component, if you don't want to display it you can just do:
curDate.Date
which returns only the date component.

I would always suggest saving with the time component, and then just displaying the parts you need when you want to show it on screen.

Convert Datetime to Date and store in DateTime variable

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