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DateTime Constructor (Int32, Int32, Int32)

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Initializes a new instance of the DateTime structure to the specified year, month, and day.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub New ( _
    year As Integer, _
    month As Integer, _
    day As Integer _
)

public DateTime(
    int year,
    int month,
    int day
)

Parameters

  • day
    Type: System.Int32
    The day (1 through the number of days in month).

Exceptions

Exception Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

year is less than 1 or greater than 9999.

-or-

month is less than 1 or greater than 12.

-or-

day is less than 1 or greater than the number of days in month.
ArgumentException

The specified parameters evaluate to earlier than DateTime.MinValue or later than DateTime.MaxValue.

Remarks

This constructor interprets the year, month, and day parameters as a year, month, and day in the Gregorian calendar. To instantiate a DateTime value by using the year, month, and day in another calendar, call the DateTime(Int32, Int32, Int32, Calendar) constructor.

The time of day for the resulting DateTime is midnight (00:00:00). The Kind property is initialized to DateTimeKind.Unspecified.

Examples

The following example uses the DateTime(Int32, Int32, Int32) constructor to instantiate a DateTime value. The example also illustrates that this overload creates a DateTime value whose time component equals midnight (or 0:00).

Dim date1 As New Date(2010, 8, 18)
outputBlock.Text &= date1.ToString() & vbCrLf
' The example displays the following output:
'      8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM      

DateTime date1 = new DateTime(2010, 8, 18);
outputBlock.Text += date1.ToString() + "\n";
// The example displays the following output:
//      8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: Xbox 360, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.