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The Problem… Often times within our applications, both on the UI and Data sides we will need to set “defaults” for dates, the simplest way to do that in most cases would be to use DateTime.now(), after all, we are most likely going to use the current...

Jul 16, 2021 · 3 min read · remelehane.dev  
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