DateTime

Description

The DateTime class represents date and time.

Properties of the DateTime Class

  Property name Brief description
The MaxValue property returns the maximum value of the DateTime type.
The MinValue property returns the minimum value of the DateTime type.
The Ticks property returns the number of milliseconds since the operating system startup.
The Ticks64 property returns the number of milliseconds since the operating system startup on the long work.
The TimeZoneBias property returns offset of the current time from the universal time coordinate (UTC).
The TimeZoneName property returns name of the current time zone.

Methods of the DateTime Class

  Method name Brief description
The Add method increases the date by the specified value.
The AddDays method adds the specified number of days to the initial date.
The AddHours method adds the specified number of hours to the initial date.
The AddSeconds method adds the specified number of seconds to the initial date.
The AddMinutes method adds the specified number of minutes to the initial date.
The AddMonths method adds the specified number of months to the initial date.
The AddSeconds method adds the specified number of seconds to the initial date.
The AddYears adds the specified number of years to the initial date.
The Compose method creates a date and time value from the specified input parameters.
The ComposeDay method creates a value of time from the specified input parameters.
The ComposeTimeOfDay method creates a value of time from the specified input parameters.
The DaysInMonth method returns the number of days in the specified month of the specified year.
The Difference method calculates difference between two dates.
The FromDouble method returns the date and time value obtained by conversion from the Double format.
The IsLeapYear method returns the leap year attribute.
The Now returns current date and time.
The Parse method converts a string into the DateTime type without validation.
The Subtract method decreases the date by the specified value.
The Today method returns the current date.
The TryParse method converts a string into the DateTime type with validation.

Properties of Variables of the DateTime Type

  Property name Brief description
The Date property returns the date component from the current variable.
The Day property returns the day of the month from the current variable.
The DayOfWeek property returns the day of the week from the current variable.
The DayOfYear property returns the number of the day of the current variable starting from the beginning of the year.
The Hour property returns the number of hours from the current variable.
The Millisecond property returns the number of milliseconds in the current variable.
The Minute property returns the number of minutes from the current variable.
The Month property returns the number of the month from the current variable.
The Second property returns the number of seconds from the current variable.
The TimeOfDay property returns the time component from the current variable.
The ToDouble property returns the date value in the Double format.
The ToLongDateString property returns the value of the current variable converted into string type in the full date format.
The ToShortDateString property returns the value of the current variable converted into string type in the short date format.
The ToString property returns the value of the current variable converted into string type.
The ToTimeString property returns the value of the current variable converted into string type in the time format.
The Year property returns the number of the year from the current variable.

See also:

System Assembly Classes