What's the quickest and easiest way to get the Min (or Max) value between two dates? Is there an equivalent to Math.Min
(& Math.Max
) for dates?
I want to do something like:
if (Math.Min(Date1, Date2) < MINIMUM_ALLOWED_DATE)
{
// not allowed to do this
}
Obviously the above Math.Min doesn't work because they're dates.
There is no overload for DateTime
values, but you can get the long value Ticks
that is what the values contain, compare them and then create a new DateTime
value from the result:
new DateTime(Math.Min(Date1.Ticks, Date2.Ticks))
(Note that the DateTime
structure also contains a Kind
property, that is not retained in the new value. This is normally not a problem; if you compare DateTime
values of different kinds the comparison doesn't make sense anyway.)