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Kind Property

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Gets a value that indicates whether the time represented by this instance is based on local time, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or neither.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property Kind As DateTimeKind
public DateTimeKind Kind { get; }
public:
property DateTimeKind Kind {
    DateTimeKind get ();
}
member Kind : DateTimeKind with get
function get Kind () : DateTimeKind

Property Value

Type: System. . :: . .DateTimeKind
One of the enumeration values that indicates what the current time represents. The default is Unspecified.

Remarks

You can explicitly set the Kind property of a new DateTime value to a particular DateTimeKind value by calling the SpecifyKind method.

The Kind property allows a DateTime value to clearly reflect either Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or the local time. In contrast, the DateTimeOffset structure can unambiguously reflect any time in any time zone as a single point in time.

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See Also

Reference

DateTime Structure

System Namespace