Date Object in C# instead of DateTime

There is no need for a specialized Date class because the DateTime object has a 'Date Property that automatically strips off the time information for you, and, it's so easy to wrap a DateTime struct in a Class and make it do whatever you want to do.

Create a DateTime in code, then inspect the 'Date Property: notice how it sets the time components of the DateTime Struct to certain default values: you'll see that Hour, Minute, Second, Millisecond are zeroes, and the 'TimeOfDay property is (00:00:00). Inspect the 'TimeOfDay property (a read-only struct): notice how all the fields whose names start with 'Total are set to zero.

You can take in a DateTime, use the current Culture settings to map it to UTC, get the UTC Date only, null out the Hour, Minutes, Milliseconds, etc.; easy:

public class UTCDate
{
    public DateTime TheDate { private set; get; }

    // 'ctor
    public UTCDate(DateTime initialDate)
    {
        this.TheDate = initialDate.ToUniversalTime().Date;
    }

    // alternate string 'ctor
    public UTCDate(string dateCandidate)
    {
        DateTime testDate;

        if(DateTime.TryParse(dateCandidate, out testDate))
        {
            TheDate = testDate.ToUniversalTime().Date;
        }
        else
        {
            // throw error
            throw new ArgumentException("Invalid string input to UTCDate");
        }
    }
}

// test in a method or EventHandler: set break-points; examine values

  UTCDate utcDate1 = new UTCDate(DateTime.Now);

  UTCDate utcDate2 = new UTCDate(utcDate1.TheDate.AddHours(-16));

  UTCDate utcDate3 = new UTCDate("12/08/1999 13:12");

As Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter[^] mentioned there is no way to use Date object (as VB), because it doesn't exists.

If you want to ignore time part to be able to display only date, just format it:

Console.WriteLine(DateTimeVariable.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd"));

Simple?

See: DateTime[^]