Question

In my application I have a Movie type and User type where any User can specify when they saw a particular movie in their logs along with ratings, etc, but I am only interested in the day not the time, so was wondering if there is only a Date type that stores only the day and nothing else, i.e. no Time.

Answer 1

There is not. Closest thing, if you must ensure there’s no time data attached to your DateTime object, is to use the DateTime.Date property, whose return value is another DateTime, but with the time value set to 00:00:00 (midnight).

And of course, when displaying the date, you can control its formatting as you like.

In particular, the Short Date specifier:

var dateValue = new DateTime(2011, 10, 14);
dateValue.ToString("d");

Will output 10/14/2011 in the Invariant culture.