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Define date and time variables

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Define date and time variables

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- [Instructor] Our first task in this chapter is how to declare variables of date types, so I've got four examples here. One is typed as Date, one is typed as DateTime, and the last two are DateOnly and TimeOnly. If you hover over the variables, you can see the type of that variable. The most important one to see here is that this one, even though I declared it as a DateTime, the editor here in Visual Studio thinks that is a Date, because as I said, this is an alias. Date is an alias for DateTime. The rest of the code is just printing out the values. Since I haven't initialized them yet, you'll see the default values. Click on this first button. So, at the top, you'll see the Date and DateTime both contain both of those portions, the date and the time. The default date is 1/1/0001, and the default time is 12:00 AM, and of course, you can see down here, the advantage of these two types is that they only have the date portion or the time portion. The next step is to initialize these so…

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