Getting Date or Time only from a DateTime Object

Question

I have a DateTime instance that has a Date and a Time. How do I extract only the date or only the time?

Answer 1

var day = value.Date; // a DateTime that will just be whole days var time = value.TimeOfDay; // a TimeSpan that is the duration into the day 

Answer 2

You can also use DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") for the date, and DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss") for the time.