One of the first things I learned about dates and times in c# (and various other languages) is that a date is stored as a DateTime with the time component set to midnight.  There is no difference between Jan 1, 2017 and January 1, 2017 00:00:00.000.  If you need to display just a date, you can use formatting functions like ToString to remove the time portion.  This seems to cause a lot of problems, a few of which I shall list here:DateTime takes up more storage space than needed: 8 bytes instead of the 3 required for a simple date.Use of 00:00:00 for no date conflates a known value of 0 with unknown value. This seems rather noobish, in the same way a new programmer might confuse a null string with an empty string.  Null and empty are different, and no time and midnight are different ideas.You see idioms like this one poppping up, even in relatively simple comparisions:if (startDate >= myDateTime && myDateTime < endDate.AddDays(1))orif (startDateTime >= myDate && myDate <= endDateTime.Date)instead of a far simplerif (startDate >= myDate && myDate <= endDate)When system components located in different time zones call each other over web services, and the schema for those web services is generated from c# types, a time element can be introduced (so that the resulting date occurs early in the morning), or the date value actually may shift by a day (e.g. the final date is actually the prior day at a time late in the evening).  This can make it painful to transmit values that are agnostic with respect to timezone, e.g. a date of birth, or a credit card expiration date.SQL Server has a Date type that stores only month, day, and year. XSD specifies different data types for Date, Time, and DateTime. Why doesn't c# have such a type?  How do you work around it?  For example, can c# properties be attributed so that they will serialize as a Date instead of a DateTime?
Why isn't there a data type for just a date?
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