A type for Date only in C# - why is there no Date type?

Question

In our C# project we have the need for representing a date without a time. I know of the existence of the DateTime, however, it incorporates a time of day as well. I

Answer 1

Who knows why it's that way. There are lots of bad design decisions in the .NET framework. However, I think this is a pretty minor one. You can always ignore the time part, so even if some code does decide to have a DateTime refer to more than just the date, the code that cares should only ever look at the date part. Alternatively, you could create a new type that represents just a date and use functions in DateTime to do the heavy lifting (calculations).