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System.DateTime

An instance of a DateTime structure represents a point in time specified by a date and a time. This structure offers many date manipulation methods. Listing B.5 shows an example of some of the functionality of this structure (datetime.cs).

Listing B.5. DateTime Example

static void Main(string [] args) { Console.WriteLine("Min: {0} ", DateTime.MinValue); Console.WriteLine("Max: {0} ", DateTime.MaxValue); DateTime date = DateTime.Now; Console.WriteLine("Long DateTime {0} {1} ", date.ToLongDateString(), date.ToLongTimeString()); Console.WriteLine("Date: {0} ", date.Date); Console.WriteLine("Month: {0} ", date.Month); Console.WriteLine("Day: {0} ", date.Day); Console.WriteLine("Day of week: {0} ", date.DayOfWeek); Console.WriteLine("Day ...