Best way to get a static DateTime value

Question

Is there a better way to get a static DateTime value in C# than the following?

public static DateTime StartOfRecordedHistory = DateTime.Parse("2004-01-01");

Thanks!

Solution 1

public static DateTime StartOfRecordedHistory = new DateTime(2004, 1, 1)

Solution 2

public static readonly DateTime StartOfRecordedHistory = new DateTime(2004, 1, 1);

No more elegant, I admit, but it avoids any issues with locale-dependent date parsing.

If you're looking for date-time literals, unfortunately C# doesn't provide them.