How do I get todays date one year ago in C#?

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Can you explain further what you are trying to achieve? Otherwise you'll get the answer DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1); — Lazarus, Jul 28 '09 at 11:23

Binary Worrier · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-13T10:18:09.733

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Todays date one year ago would be

DateTime lastYear = DateTime.Today.AddYears(-1);

edited May 13 '16 at 10:18

answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:22

Binary Worrier

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FYI, This takes into account leap year: If the current instance represents the leap day in a leap year, the return value depends on the target date: If value + DateTime.Year is also a leap year, the return value represents the leap day in that year. For example, if four years is added to February 29, 2012, the date returned is February 29, 2016. If value + DateTime.Year is not a leap year, the return value represents the day before the leap day in that year. For example, if one year is added to February 29, 2012, the date returned is February 28, 2013. – CD Waddell Apr 24 '14 at 13:48

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:25

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What do you mean by "last years date"?

If you just want the date of today minus one year, try the following:

    DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);

I hope that is what you need.

UPDATE: Damn, I'm way to slow it seems :(

answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:25

bbohac

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:23

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DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);

answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:23

CD..

They were literally seconds later than the other guy not intentionally repeating answers... this is kinda crazy... – Zargold May 24 '17 at 19:42

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '09 at 12:36

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var oneYearAgo = 1.Years().Ago();

answered Sep 04 '09 at 12:36

Simon

+1 At least this is different. Hopefully someone (@JonSkeet) will talk through the various ways of doing it in Noda Time! – Ruben Bartelink Nov 14 '12 at 20:48

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:23

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DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1)

answered Jul 28 '09 at 11:23

AdaTheDev

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