Working with dates and times
After numbers and text, the next most popular types of data to work with are dates and times. The two main types are as follows:
DateTime: Represents a combined date and time value for a fixed point in time.TimeSpan: Represents a duration of time.
These two types are often used together. For example, if you subtract one DateTime value from another, the result is a TimeSpan. If you add a TimeSpan to a DateTime, then the result is a DateTime value.
Specifying date and time values
A common way to create a date and time value is to specify individual values for the date and time components, like day and hour, as described in Table 7.1:
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Date/time parameter |
Value range |
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1 to 9,999 |
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