a question regarding DateTime

[Jeff]

Hey

..NET 2.0

I'm about to create 2 input parameters for a method. These are 2 DateTime
parameters - one named "from" and another named "to"... - from and to
DateTime values...

Okay the trick is that the "from" DateTime should be like this
01.<MM>.<YYYY ss:mm.hh which means that today is the 03.12.2007 then the
"from" date should be 01.12.2007 00:00:00. What is the best way of
calculating this?

any suggestions?

[J.B. Moreno]

In article <Ov************ **@TK2MSFTNGP02 .phx.gbl>,
Liz <li*@tiredofspa m.comwrote:

"Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen" <la***@vkarlsen .nowrote in message

Liz wrote:

so you want the current month.year, always prefixed with "01" and
postfixed with "00:00:00" .. ? this should work:

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
string t = "01." + dt.Month.ToStri ng().PadLeft(2, '0') + "." +
dt.Year.ToStrin g() + " 00:00:00";
DateTime dt2 = Convert.ToDateT ime(t);
don't know if it's the "best" way ... it's a way ...

That's what I call a solutionproblem , a solution with more problems than
it solves.

Go with the way that Jon posted.

I had not seen Jon's solution; now that I have, no doubt it's cleaner and I
would use it; compared to his, I see awkward, not problematic .. it does
work ... what "problems" do you see with this one other than it's slower and
more verbose?

Cultural info would be my guess...plus unnecessary code (there's no
reason to do the padding or add the time part).
If you're going to do a string conversion, then...

DateTime dt2 = DateTime.Parse( DateTime.Now.To String("yyyy/MM/01"));

But Jon's method (using new DateTime) is better as it avoids string
parsing entirely, and is thus more readable and probably faster.

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J.B. Moreno