Ben Struthers

C# DateTime Constant

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In VB.NET, you could use a VB literal to define a constant. (date literals always use the American mm/dd/yyyy format)

Public Const CONSTANT_DATE As DateTime = #1/1/1501#

but in C#, no such thing exists. A simple workaround is to create a static readonly variable and assign it the desired date.

public static readonly DateTime CONSTANT_DATE = new DateTime(1501, 01, 01);