January 14, 2010
@ 03:38 PM
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Converting Nullable DateTime
Today at work we ran into an issue where we needed to convert nullable DateTime values to UTC time values. Of course this can't be done if there isn't a value present. Most programmers first thought is to wrap this in an "if" statement. There is a much easier way. Here is a code example:

   DateTime? testDate = DateTime.Now;

 

   DateTime? newDate = testDate.HasValue ? TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(testDate.Value) : testDate;


With this code, if there is a local time value, it will be converted with no Exceptions being thrown.




 
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