Question

I’m faced with an issue where my application is doing a search for transactions based on a FROM and TO date.

Lets use the following example:

TRANS1: 14-Feb-2012 2:23:36

TRANS2: 07-Feb-2012 3:23:47

My date ranges in C# is as follow:

startDate.Date {7/02/2012 12:00:00 AM}

endDate.Date {14/02/2012 12:00:00 AM}

The following line of code will ALWAYS exclude transactions if they fall on the endDate because the endDate is always set to 12:00:00AM (Based on DateTime.Now)

if (trans.TransactionDate >= startDate.Date &&
                                   trans.TransactionDate <= endDate.Date)
{
   // do stuff
}

How do I correctly handle this so that it includes all transactions for the 14th as well? Is it safe to do the following:

Changing 12:00:00AM to 12:00:00PM

if (trans.TransactionDate >= startDate.Date && 
                     trans.TransactionDate <= endDate.Date.AddHours(12))
{
   // do stuff
}

Answer 1

This may work:

if (trans.TransactionDate.Date >= startDate.Date && trans.TransactionDate.Date <= endDate.Date)
{
   // do stuff
}