DateTime::MinValue Field
Updated: July 2008
Represents the smallest possible value of DateTime. This field is read-only.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The value of this constant is equivalent to 00:00:00.0000000, January 1, 0001.
MinValue defines the date and time that is assigned to an uninitialized DateTime variable. The following example illustrates this.
The MinValue and MaxValue properties can be used to ensure that a value lies within the supported range before passing it to a DateTime constructor. The code in the Example section illustrates this usage.
The following example instantiates a DateTime object by passing its constructor an Int64 value that represents a number of ticks. Before invoking the constructor, the example ensures that this value is greater than or equal to DateTime.MinValue.Ticks and less than or equal to DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks. If not, it throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
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