.Date return also hour, how to remove?

Question

I need to get only the date not the hour from this:

DateTime.Parse(tr.SelectSingleNode(".//td[@class='full-date']").InnerText.Trim()).Date;

but I get this result:

3/24/2018 12:00:00 AM

How can I get only:

3/24/2018

Note that I save the result in the following format:

public DateTime Date { get; set; }

Your datetime object is what it says it is `Date` + `Time`... you can't make a datetime object with only a date, it will have time 00:00 (24hrs notation) by default — EpicKip, Sep 14 '17 at 11:35
ugh, just leave it at 00.00 whats the issue? That way you have whole days — EpicKip, Sep 14 '17 at 11:37
Have you tried formatting it in your desired format ? Like ToString("dd-MM-yyyy") — Saurabh, Sep 14 '17 at 11:37
Possible duplicate of [How to remove time portion of date in C# in DateTime object only?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6121271/how-to-remove-time-portion-of-date-in-c-sharp-in-datetime-object-only) — EpicKip, Sep 14 '17 at 11:38
@MarioSerda use `{Binding YourDateTimeProperty, StringFormat={}{0:dd/MM/yyyy}"` — SᴇM, Sep 14 '17 at 11:40
@MarioSerda If its about displaying (which has nothing to do with wpf...) use `dateTimeObject.ToString("Mdyyyy");` — EpicKip, Sep 14 '17 at 11:46

Mong Zhu · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-14T12:11:49.443

Note that I save the result in the following format:

you save the result in a variable of type DateTime you don't save in in a certain format. Only the string representation of DateTime has a format. DateTime has always both, date and time ( I guess hence the name ;))

How can I get only: 3/24/2018 ?

this point becomes important when you try to get the string representation of the DateTime using this overload of the ToString method:

string string_representation = Date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 11:35

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You can't remove the time component from System.DateTime. You could create your own Date representation if you wish. Or, you could get the date string using,

Date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")

answered Sep 14 '17 at 11:35

Nisarg

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 11:35

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How about this?

        DateTime time = DateTime.Now;
        Console.WriteLine(time.ToString("MM/dd/yy"));

answered Sep 14 '17 at 11:35

Levente Boda

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mjwills · Answer 4 · 2017-09-14T11:59:55.333

Consider using NodaTime, which has the concept of a date without time (and vice versa).

To convert from DateTime to LocalDate:

using System;
using NodaTime;

namespace YourApp.Extensions
{
    public static class NodaTimeExtensions
    {
        public static LocalDate ToNodaLocalDate(this DateTime dateTime)
        {
            return new LocalDate(dateTime.Year, dateTime.Month, dateTime.Day);
        }
    }
}

.Date return also hour, how to remove?

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