Remove hours:seconds:milliseconds in DateTime object

Question

I\'m trying to create a string from the DateTime object which yields the format mm:dd:yyyy.

Conventionally the DateTime object comes as

Answer 1

If you want to remove hours, seconds, milliseconds (remove as reset to 0) from a DateTime object without converting to a string, you can use the Date property.

// Get date-only portion of date, without its time.
var date = DateTime.Now.Date;

The example below 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).

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