How to truncate a date in .net?

Question

Besides the DateTime ctor (new DateTime(year, month, day)) , is there any other way to truncate a date?

Answer 1

DateTime.Date

Returns just the date component (the time is midnight).

Answer 2

DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();

Also, ToString() is overloaded in DateTime, you can pass a few dozen formatting options to it.

See: http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxtreme/sys/demos/datetimeformats.aspx

Answer 3

Jonathan, excellent information, thank you