Hi Anthony,

May be you can get this working 

List<DynamicNode> activity = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).Descendants("ActivityDocType").Items;

foreach(var a in activity){
if(a.GetProperty("activityStartDate").Value.ToString() != " 00:00:00"){
@Convert.ToDateTime(a.GetProperty("activityStartDate").Value).Date.ToString("dd MMMM, yyy")
}
} 

Hi Anthony,

I use C# Date comparison and it would be something like this (I'm assuming you are using MVC or a Macro Partial View here

@if (activity.HasValue("activityStartDate"))
{
    <p>
    <i class="icon-calendar"></i>
        @(activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityStartDate").ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt"))

        @if (activity.HasValue("activityEndDate"))
        {
            var activityEndDate = activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityEndDate");

            if (activityEndDate.TimeOfDay == new TimeSpan(0))
            {
                <text> - @(activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityEndDate").ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"))</text>
            }
            else
            {
                <text> - @(activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityEndDate").ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt"))</text>
            }                  
        }   
    </p>
}

Jeavon

Hi Fuji,

I tested out your solution, and I noticed that a Date object has a TimeofDay property, which is set to "00:00:00" when no time is chosen with the Datetime picker.

So I came up with this solution which works fine:

DateTime startDate = (DateTime)activity.GetPropertyValue("activityStartDate");
@if (startDate.TimeOfDay.ToString() != "00:00:00")
 {
   @umbraco.library.FormatDateTime(activity.GetPropertyValue("activityStartDate").ToString(), "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt")
 }
else {
       @umbraco.library.FormatDateTime(activity.GetPropertyValue("activityStartDate").ToString(), "dd/MM/yyyy")
 }

@Jeavon, sorry, my latest post crossed with your solutions. We both used the TimeofDay property in our solutions, but as your where first I'm checking your solution as solved.

thanks,

Anthony

Awesome, I would probably perfer to compare DateTime objects rather than strings but they should give the same result.

e.g. @if (startDate.TimeOfDay.ToString() != "00:00:00") vs if (startDate.TimeOfDay == new TimeSpan(0))

@anthony no worries , i myself didnt try it before but thanks @jeavon. 

@Jeavon, thanks Jeavon, I refactored my code base on your example. I also added a check to see if start- and enddate are on the same day. If they are, the date is only shown once, like this:

14/03/2014 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM

My code looks like this now:

     @if (activity.HasValue("activityStartDate"))
                        {
                            var startDate = activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityStartDate");
                            var startDateMask = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt";
                            <p>
                            <i class="icon-calendar"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;

                            @if (startDate.TimeOfDay == new TimeSpan(0))
                            {
                                startDateMask = "dd/MM/yyyy";
                            }


                            <text>@(activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityStartDate").ToString(startDateMask))</text>

                            @if (activity.HasValue("activityEndDate"))
                            {
                               var endDate = activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityEndDate");
                               var endDateMask = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt";
                               if (endDate.Day == startDate.Day)
                               {
                                   endDateMask = "hh:mm tt";
                               }
                               if (endDate.TimeOfDay == new TimeSpan(0))
                               {
                                   endDateMask = "dd/MM/yyyy";
                               }


                                   <text>- @(activity.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("activityEndDate").ToString(endDateMask))</text>


                            }

                            </p>
                        }

That looks great to me!

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