I am having two date values, one already stored in the database and the other selected by the user using DatePicker. The use case is to search for a particular date from the database.
The value previously entered in the database always has time component of 12:00:00, where as the date entered from picker has different time component.
I am interested in only the date components and would like to ignore the time component.
What are the ways to do this comparison in C#?
Also, how to do this in LINQ?
UPDATE: On LINQ to Entities, the following works fine.
e => DateTime.Compare(e.FirstDate.Value, SecondDate) >= 0
NOTE: at the time of writing this answer, the EF-relation was unclear (that was edited into the question after this was written). For correct approach with EF, check Mandeeps answer.
You can use the DateTime.Date
property to perform a date-only comparison.
DateTime a = GetFirstDate();
DateTime b = GetSecondDate();
if (a.Date.Equals(b.Date))
{
// the dates are equal
}