DateTime.Date Property
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Gets the date component of this instance.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.DateTimeA new object that has the same date as this instance, and its time value set to 12:00:00 midnight (00:00:00).
The following example uses the Date property to extract the date component of a DateTime value with its time component set to zero (or 0:00:00, or midnight). It also illustrates that, depending on the format string used when displaying the DateTime value, the time component can continue to appear in formatted output.
Dim date1 As Date = #6/1/2008 7:47:00 AM# outputBlock.Text += date1.ToString() & vbCrLf ' Get date-only portion of date, without its time. Dim dateOnly As Date = date1.Date ' Display date using short date string. outputBlock.Text += dateOnly.ToString("d") & vbCrLf ' Display date using 24-hour clock. outputBlock.Text += dateOnly.ToString("g") & vbCrLf outputBlock.Text += dateOnly.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm") & vbCrLf ' The example displays the following output: ' 6/1/2008 7:47:00 AM ' 6/1/2008 ' 6/1/2008 12:00 AM ' 06/01/2008 00:00