DateTime Constructor (Int64, DateTimeKind)

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Updated: September 2010

Initializes a new instance of the DateTime structure to a specified number of ticks and to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or local time.

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub New ( _
    ticks As Long, _
    kind As DateTimeKind _
)

public DateTime(
    long ticks,
    DateTimeKind kind
)

ticks
Type: System.Int64
A date and time expressed in the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since January 1, 0001 at 00:00:00.000 in the Gregorian calendar.

kind
Type: System.DateTimeKind
One of the enumeration values that indicates whether ticks specifies a local time, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or neither.

Exception	Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	ticks is less than DateTime.MinValue or greater than DateTime.MaxValue.
ArgumentException	kind is not one of the DateTimeKind values.

For applications in which a limited degree of time zone awareness is important, you can use the corresponding DateTimeOffset constructor.

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Supported in: Xbox 360, Windows Phone OS 7.0

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Date	History	Reason
September 2010	Expanded the ticks parameter description.	Customer feedback.