Get Today’s Date

When dealing with dates most of the time we need to get current date or today’s date in C# code to perform some operations. DateTime class provides DateTime.Today property to get today’s date. Today property returns current date only and does not include time in it so we can use Today property in code where we just need today’s date and not time. Then we can use .ToString() to format string date as per our need.

Sample code to get today’s or current date [C#]

using System;
using System.Globalization;
public class DateTimeAddYear
{
public static void Main()
{
// Get current date.
DateTime todaysDate = = DateTime.Today;
//And show today's date in needed format
Console.WriteLine(todaysDate.ToString("dd MMM yyyy"));
}
}
//Output
//12 Jan 2012

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Get only date part from datetime

In some cases we need to get the date with date and time with midnight time like 00:00:00 in C# code to perform some operations. DateTime class provides DateTime.Date property to get date and time with time like 00:00:00.

Sample code to get today’s or current date [C#]

using System;
using System.Globalization;
public class DateTimeAddYear
{   
public static void Main()
{
DateTime selectedDate = DateTime.Parse("12 Jan 2012");
Console.WriteLine(selectedDate.Date);  
}
}
//Output
//2 Jan 2009

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