Getting date only

Question

I want to get today's date. Using Now(), I get both date and time but I need date only. How to get it? Thanks Furqan

Answer 1

Use System.DateTime.Today. Some additional notes:

• While you're only interested in the date, you still get a System.DateTime object. That is, there still is a time portion in the returned value, but it's left blank (all zeroes).

  It's important to remember this when you compare dates. If you want to compare two dates, and you've fetched one date via DateTime.Today and another date via DateTime.Now, then these two dates will not be equal — precisely because one has the time set and the other doesn't.

• In VB.NET, the Date keyword is equivalent to the System.DateTime type. So you can write:

  Date.Today
  

  P.S.: It just occurred to me that it might be a good idea to write Date.Today, but DateTime.Now, in order to make it even more explicit that the former property only returns the date portion, while the latter returns both a date and time portion.

Answer 2

Try the DateTime.Today method for just the current date.

This returns a DateTime object, just like DateTime.Now, but it's time portion is always set to 0.