Date comparison not working in LINQ?

[leosuth]

Hi

I've got the following function:

   public static List<Order> FilterByDateRange(List<Order> _list,string _sdate, string _edate)
    {
      if (_list.Count == 0) return null;
      DateTime _start = Convert.ToDateTime(_sdate);
      string[] _ed = _edate.Split(' ');
      string _edate2 = _ed[0] + " 23:59:59";
      DateTime _end = Convert.ToDateTime(_edate2);
      List<Order> result = (from obj in _list
                            where
                              (((DateTime)obj.DespatchDate >= _start) &&
                              ((DateTime)obj.DespatchDate <= _end))
                            select obj).ToList();
      return result;
    }

The idea being I supply a List of Orders, and I select all the Orders in that set that lie within a date range (note start date starts at 00:00:00 and end date ends at 23:59:59)

I have three orders where obj.DespatchDate equals
{18/02/2010 18:03:01}
{20/02/2010 14:01:51}
{20/02/2010 14:02:03}

I supply a date range that gives
_start = {20/02/2010 00:00:00}
_end = {22/02/2010 23:59:59}

Problem: result always gets a Count = 0 where I would expect a Count of 2. I stepped through the code and very carefully checked the values of the various dates, so I know they are correct.

Am I being incredibly stupid (certainly not an impossibility) or does date comparison not work in LINQ?

PS. obj.DespatchDate is type (DateTime?) - but that should not make any difference

[leosuth]

OK 'pologies all.

It turned out that I WAS being stupid :)

My Orders were actually in January and I was looking in February - so date comparison in Linq DOES work just fine!