Why is the DateTimePicker's MaxDateTime 12/31/9998 23:59:59? [closed]

Question

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datetimepicker.maxdate.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datetimepicker.maxdatetime.aspx

This value seems arbitrary when no explanation is provided. Why isn't this just DateTime.MaxValue?

Answer 1

There probably isn't a business reason. I don't think it's a coincidence that the value is exactly one year prior to DateTime.MaxValue. The DateTimePicker may have some internal logic that paginates the adjacent months that breaks near DateTime.MaxValue that wasn't worth special casing.