Mono Kick Start

Mono, Dates, and Times

Just like the .NET Framework, Mono provides several classes for dealing with dates and times. In this section, we take a closer look at the fundamentals you should be familiar with.

DateTime

The DateTime object contains the basic mechanisms for managing dates and time.

Constructors

The following listing shows a simple example:

using System;

public class Demo
{
        public static void Main()
        {
                DateTime x = new DateTime(
                        1978,           // year
                        9,              // month
                        8,              // day
                        18,             // hour
                        35,             // minute
                        5,              // second
                        15);

                Console.WriteLine("{0:F}", x);
        }
}

We call the constructor of the DateTime object and pass a set of parameters to it. The meaning of the various parameters is described by the comments on the right edge of the code. To display the ...