Compare Created DateTime to DateTime.Today at 6pm, C#

Question

In C# I need to compare the value of DateTime.Today /6pm, to a field that stores the Created DateTime.

Basically there is certain functionality that is only accessible on the same day as the created day and then only till 6pm.

The part I am not fully understanding is how to accurately represent 6pm on Today to compare against. Is there a method that always returns, say, Midnight that I can then do a .AddHours(18); to?

Am I over-complicating this? Thanks.

Answer 1

DateTime SixPmToday = DateTime.Now.Date.AddHours(18);

If you output this, say to console, you will have (in my regional settings):

5/24/2010 6:00:00 PM

Answer 2

try this:

var n =DateTime.Now;
var today_6pm = new DateTime(n.Year, n.Month, n.Day, 18,0,0)

Answer 3

You can use DateTime.Today.AddHours(18). DateTime.Today gets only the current date.

Answer 4

DateTime created; //get this from wherever

DateTime midnight = DateTime.Today; //DateTime.Today returns today's date at midnight
DateTime sixpm = midnight.AddHours(18);

if (created >= midnight && created <= sixpm)
{
    // created is today and prior to 6pm
}

Answer 5

DateTime.Today.AddHours(18);

DateTime.Today returns a DateTime with the current date and 12:00 am as the time.

Answer 6

This is the solution.

var creationDate = ... // fetch the creation date from somewhere
var availableUntil = creationDate.Date.AddHours(18);
if (DateTime.Now <= availableUntil)
{
    // The functionality is available.
}

This checks if it is before 6 PM on the creation date's day.

Answer 7

How about this?

public static bool IsBefore6PM(System.DateTime _date)
{
     if(_date.CompareTo(System.DateTime.Today.AddHours(18)) < 0 && _date.CompareTo(System.DateTime.Today) >= 0)
     {
          return true;
     }  
     else
     {
          return false;
     }
}

This could also be modified if say a valid date is between 8am to 6pm.

public static bool IsBefore6PM(System.DateTime _date)
    {
         if(_date.CompareTo(System.DateTime.Today.AddHours(18)) < 0 && _date.CompareTo(System.DateTime.Today.AddHours(8)) >= 0)
         {
              return true;
         }  
         else
         {
              return false;
         }
    }