How to extract just the date from a DateTimeOffset object

Question

How to extract just the date from a DateTimeOffset object? I thought the Date property would return just the date part. But, I keep getting the whole datetime, i.e. 7/17/2014 12:00:00 AM -04:00. I'd like to get only the date portion 7/17/2014.

Here's my code.

Func<DataRow, string, DateTimeOffset?> getFieldNullableDate = (row, field) =>
{
  if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace((row[field] ?? string.Empty).ToString()))
      return DateTimeOffset.Parse(row[field].ToString()).Date;
  else
      return null;
};

Answer 1

You can use this to extract only MM/DD/YYYY from the DateTimeOffset? variable.

DateTimeOffset? testOne = null;

var final = testOne.HasValue ? testOne.Value.Date.ToShortDateString() : null;//null

DateTimeOffset? testTwo = new DateTimeOffset(DateTime.Today);

var notNull = testTwo.HasValue 
            ? testTwo.Value.Date.ToShortDateString() 
            : null;// 7/24/2014