Subtract days from a DateTime

Question

DateTime dateForButton = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1);

That error usually occurs when you try to subtract an interval from DateTime.MinValue or you want to add something to DateTime.MaxValue (or you try to instantiate a date outside this min-max interval). Are you sure you're not assigning MinValue somewhere?

You can do:

DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1)

You can use the following code:

dateForButton = dateForButton.Subtract(TimeSpan.FromDays(1));

The dateTime.AddDays(-1) does not subtract that one day from the dateTime reference. It will return a new instance, with that one day subtracted from the original reference.

DateTime dateTime = DateTime.Now;
DateTime otherDateTime = dateTime.AddDays(-1);

I've had issues using AddDays(-1).

My solution is TimeSpan.

DateTime.Now - TimeSpan.FromDays(1);

Instead of directly decreasing number of days from the date object directly, first get date value then subtract days. See below example:

DateTime SevenDaysFromEndDate = someDate.Value.AddDays(-1);

Here, someDate is a variable of type DateTime.