DateTime Constructor (Int64, DateTimeKind)
Updated: August 2010
Initializes a new instance of the DateTime structure to a specified number of ticks and to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or local time.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- ticks
- Type: System::Int64
A date and time expressed in the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since January 1, 0001 at 00:00:00.000 in the Gregorian calendar.
- kind
- Type: System::DateTimeKind
One of the enumeration values that indicates whether ticks specifies a local time, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or neither.
| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| ArgumentOutOfRangeException | ticks is less than DateTime::MinValue or greater than DateTime::MaxValue. |
| ArgumentException | kind is not one of the DateTimeKind values. |
For applications in which portability of date and time data or a limited degree of time zone awareness is important, you can use the corresponding DateTimeOffset constructor.
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