How to set time to midnight for current day

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Every time that I create a non-nullable datetime in my mvc3 application it defaults to now    where now is current date with current time   I would like to default it to today s date with 12am as the time   I m trying to default the time in my mvc   but   the following isn t setting to todays date  12am   Instead it defaults to now with current date and time   private DateTime  Begin   new DateTime DateTime Now Year  DateTime Now Month  DateTime Now Day  12  0  0   public DateTime Begin   get   return  Begin    set    Begin   value         How can I set to 12am for the current date for non-nullable datetime

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Try this   DateTime Date   DateTime Now AddHours -DateTime Now Hour  AddMinutes -DateTime Now Minute      AddSeconds -DateTime Now Second     Output will be like      07 29 2015 00 00 00

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Using some of the above recommendations  the following function and code is working for search a date range   Set date with the time component set to 00 00 00  public static DateTime GetDateZeroTime DateTime date        return new DateTime date Year  date Month  date Day  0  0  0       Usage  var modifieddatebegin   Tools Utilities GetDateZeroTime form modifieddatebegin    var modifieddateend   Tools Utilities GetDateZeroTime form modifieddateend AddDays 1

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Most of the suggested solutions can cause a 1 day error depending on the time associated with each date   If you are looking for an integer number of calendar days between to dates  regardless of the time associated with each date  I have found that this works well   return  dateOne Value Date - dateTwo Value Date  Days

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Only need to set it to   DateTime Now Date  Console WriteLine DateTime Now Date ToString  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss     Console Read      It shows       2017-04-08 00 00 00     on my machine

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I believe you are looking for DateTime Today  The documentation states      An object that is set to today s date  with the time component set to 00 00 00    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system datetime today aspx  Your code would be   DateTime  Begin   DateTime Today

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Related  so I thought I would post for others   If you want to find the UTC of the start of today  for your timezone  the following code works for any UTC offset  -23 5 thru  23 5    This looks like we add X hours then subtract X hours  but the important thing is the   Date  after the add   double utcOffset  10 0      Set to your UTC offset in hours  eg  Melbourne Australia  var now   DateTime UtcNow   var startOfToday   now AddHours utcOffset - 24 0  Date  startOfToday   startOfToday AddHours 24 0 - utcOffset

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You can use the Date property of the DateTime object - eg  DateTime midnight   DateTime Now Date    So your code example becomes  private DateTime  Begin   DateTime Now Date  public DateTime Begin   get   return  Begin    set    Begin   value        PS  going back to your original code setting the hours to 12 will give you time of noon for the current day  so instead you could have used 0     var now   DateTime Now  new DateTime now Year  now Month  now Day  0  0  0

[c#] How to set time to midnight for current day?

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