How to create a DateTime object?

Question

I have three integers: Hours, Minutes, and Seconds.

I want to create a DateTime object with System.Date and Time provided by the above three variables.

Solution 1

Check out MSDN and have a look at the constructors that exists for DateTime, you'll find out that this is possible:

var theDate = new DateTime (DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, DateTime.Today.Day, hours, minute, second);

Solution 2

You can use DateTime.Today to get the current date at midnight, and add the hours you need by using a TimeSpan, which is a good way to represent hours of the day:

TimeSpan time = new TimeSpan(12, 20, 20); // hours, minutes, seconds
DateTime todayWithTime = DateTime.Today + time;

See also:

• TimeSpan(Int32, Int32, Int32)
• operator +(DateTime,TimeSpan)

Solution 3

See DateTime.Today and this DateTime constructor

        DateTime today = DateTime.Today;
        new DateTime(today.Year, today.Month, today.Day, 10, 39, 30);

Solution 4

or you can simply parse the hours/mins/secs with DateTime.Parse() which will generate the current date automatically (this is also written in the documentation)

Solution 5

you have a constructor that takes:

DateTime(Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32) 

Initializes a new instance of the DateTime structure to the specified year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.

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Comments

[Steven Ryssaert]

Does it need to be today's date, or a timespan ?

[R. Martinho Fernandes]

To add to what @Stephen said, .NET documentation can be found at the MSDN library.

[Druid]

Posted the same thing 10 seconds later! Voted to delete mine :)

[Robin Salih]

This could potentially supply the wrong date if the clock goes past midnight inbetween evaluating DateTime.Today.Year and DateTime.Today.Day.

[kuskmen]

Maybe I come late , but you must have meant today.Day as third parameter. Maybe a typo.