DateTime.Compare how to check if a date is less than 30 days old?

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James May picture James May · Feb 9, 2009 · Viewed 179.3k times · Source

I'm trying to work out if an account expires in less than 30 days. Am I using DateTime Compare correctly?

if (DateTime.Compare(expiryDate, now) < 30)

{
     matchFound = true;
}

Answer

Konrad Rudolph picture Konrad Rudolph · Feb 9, 2009

Am I using DateTime Compare correctly?

No. Compare only offers information about the relative position of two dates: less, equal or greater. What you want is something like this:

if ((expiryDate - DateTime.Now).TotalDays < 30)
    matchFound = true;

This subtracts two DateTimes. The result is a TimeSpan object which has a TotalDays property.

Additionally, the conditional can be written directly as:

matchFound = (expiryDate - DateTime.Now).TotalDays < 30;

No if needed.

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