DateTime Constructor (Int64, DateTimeKind)
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
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 a limited degree of time zone awareness is important, you can use the corresponding DateTimeOffset constructor.