ToFileTime conversion error with actual date

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Hi,

i just converted DateTime.Now.Date.ToFileTime() but when converting back to datetime from FileTime it gives some different datetime.

Please help me to fix this issue,i have to do this conversion for my US client (EST timezone)

Below is the time of US when converting FileTime value to actual datetime it gives some difference in hours.

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08/18/2015 09:55:02
FileTime :  130843440000000000

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Jeetendra

Posted 18-Aug-15 3:47am

jeetendra keshri1

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Aug-15 9:58am

How did you do it?
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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2015-08-18T04:51:00

You're not getting the same time back because you've stripped out the time part by calling DateTime.Now.Date.

The Date property[^] returns "a new object with the same date as this instance, and the time value set to 12:00:00 midnight (00:00:00)."

(NB: Because you're running this on a computer in the EST timezone, this will actually be equivalent to 4 AM UTC.)

If you want to include the time, then don't use the Date property:

C#

long fileTime = DateTime.Now.ToFileTime();
DateTime theTime = DateTime.FromFileTime(fileTime);