Right way to implement GetHashCode for this struct

Question

I want to use a date range (from one date to another date) as a key for a dictionary, so I wrote my own struct:

   struct DateRange
   {
      public DateTime St         


        

Answer 1

Combining Jon Skeet's answer and comment on the question (so please, no voting on this, just consolidating):

struct DateRange
{
    private readonly DateTime start;

    private readonly DateTime end;

    public DateRange(DateTime start, DateTime end)
    {
        this.start = start.Date;
        this.end = end.Date;
    }

    public DateTime Start
    {
        get
        {
            return this.start;
        }
    }

    public DateTime End
    {
        get
        {
            return this.end;
        }
    }

    public static bool operator ==(DateRange dateRange1, DateRange dateRange2)
    {
        return dateRange1.Equals(dateRange2);
    }

    public static bool operator !=(DateRange dateRange1, DateRange dateRange2)
    {
        return !dateRange1.Equals(dateRange2);
    }

    public override int GetHashCode()
    {
        // Overflow is fine, just wrap
        unchecked
        {
            var hash = 17;

            // Suitable nullity checks etc, of course :)
            hash = (23 * hash) + this.start.GetHashCode();
            hash = (23 * hash) + this.end.GetHashCode();
            return hash;
        }
    }

    public override bool Equals(object obj)
    {
        return (obj is DateRange)
            && this.start.Equals(((DateRange)obj).Start)
            && this.end.Equals(((DateRange)obj).End);
    }
}