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30 September 2019 / x++

System.DateTime

There are enough x++ date and time functions to do just about anything, but sometimes they can make simple tasks fussy, and lack precision. I was investigating how to bring in [at least] milliseconds into my my timestamps, and ran across the DateTime [struct](https://docs.microsoft.com/en- us/dotnet/api/system.datetime?view=netframework-4.8&ref=d365stuff.co) and its [methods](https://docs.microsoft.com/en- us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/sql/linq/system-datetime- methods?ref=d365stuff.co).

Not only does it make a lot of date components easily accessible, but it has the day of year, millisecond, and tick measures of time. It's the little things.

Michael Stashwick

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