c# - Days difference between two dates

Question

(This question already has answers here): question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2330302/days-difference-between-two-dates

Answer 1

DateTime's can be subtracted to get a TimeSpan. The TimeSpan has a TotalDays which is the number of days (includes fractional days as well).

int DaysBetween(DateTime d1, DateTime d2) {
    TimeSpan span = d2.Subtract(d1);
    return (int)span.TotalDays;
}

NOTE Time spans are signed. If d1=1/9/11 and d2=1/11/11, then d1.subtract(d2)=timespan of -2 days. So if you want to use a time span to find out if dates are within X days of each other, you need to take the absolute value of the total days...

Math.Abs(span.TotalDays)