Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Using Dates

The DateTime structure in the .NET Compact Framework implements dates. A DateTime structure holds date values accurate to one tick (100 nanoseconds). Dates are held relative to a start date of 12:00 midnight, January 1, 1 A.D. (also known as C.E. or Common Era). Dates are immutable, which means that any operations to modify a date will actually return a new instance of a date. This has performance implications when performing many date operations.

DateTime objects hold absolute date and time values. A TimeSpan object, frequently used with dates, holds a relative time or a time interval. The date arithmetic code examples in the following subsections examine the use of TimeSpan objects. The DateTime and TimeSpan structures are defined ...