C# DateTime Kind

Description

DateTime Kind gets a value that indicates whether the time represented by this instance is based on local time, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or neither.

Syntax

DateTime.Kind has the following syntax.


public DateTimeKind Kind { get; }

Example

The following example uses the SpecifyKind method to demonstrate how the Kind property influences the ToLocalTime and ToUniversalTime conversion methods.


using System;//from   www  . j  ava  2  s .c  om

class Sample 
{
    public static void Main() 
    {
        DateTime saveNow = DateTime.Now;
    
        DateTime saveUtcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
        DateTime myDt;
    
        myDt = DateTime.SpecifyKind(saveNow, DateTimeKind.Utc);
        Display("Utc: .............", myDt);

    }

    public static string datePatt = @"M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt";
    public static void Display(string title, DateTime inputDt)
    {
        DateTime dispDt = inputDt;
        string dtString;
    
        dtString = dispDt.ToString(datePatt);
        Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}, Kind = {2}", 
                          title, dtString, dispDt.Kind);
    }

}

The code above generates the following result.