DateTime.Today , beginning or end of the day?

Question

I am using DateTime.Today.

Now I'm not sure if the date is from the beginning of the day or the end of the day.

This is what DateTime.Today returns : {11-3-2014 0:00:00}

Answer 1

MSDN states the following: "An object that is set to today's date, with the time component set to 00:00:00."

This means that a DateTime object is created with today's date at the absolute start of the day hence 00:00:00.

You can check if it is the start of the day by using the AddHour() method of the DateTime class.

DateTime d = DateTime.Today;
//AddHours, AddMinutes or AddSeconds
d = d.AddHours(1);
if (d.Date != DateTime.Today.Date) 
{ 
   //Not the same day
}

If d.date should be different the date was initialised at a different time (eg. 23:00:01).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.today(v=vs.110).aspx

Answer 2

Thats the beginning of the day, the end of the day would be:

{11-3-2014 23:59:59}

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