Ministry.DateTimeAccessor 1.1.0

Introduction

This project provides a DateTimeAccessor class, with matching interface, which allows you to obtain the current DateTime object. This allows you to inject the accessor through Dependency Injection and mock the return value for accurate testing.

This allows you to replace the following code (which cannot be tested)...

class MyClass
{
  public DateTime GetSeconds()
    => DateTime.Now.Second;            
}

with this (which can, by mocking IDateTimeAccessor and returning a specific value for 'Now')...

class MyClass
{
  private readonly IDateTimeAccessor dateTimeAccessor;

  public MyClass(IDateTimeAccessor dateTimeAccessor)
  {
    this.dateTimeAccessor = dateTimeAcessor;
  }

  public DateTime GetSeconds()
    => dateTimeAccessor.Now.Second;            
}

Supporting Functions

In addition to the core date time accessor, this library also provides a static DateTimeHelper class which provides the following DateTime conversion features as extension methods to the DateTime class...

• ToGmtTime()
• FromGmtTime()
• To UnixEpochTime()
• FromUnixEpochTime()

The Ministry of Technology Open Source Products

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Our other open source repositories can be found here...

• https://github.com/ministryotech
• https://github.com/tiefling

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Where can I get it?

You can download the package for this project from any of the following package managers...

• NUGET - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ministry.DateTimeAccessor/

Contribution guidelines

If you would like to contribute to the project, please contact me.

Who do I talk to?

• Keith Jackson - keith@minotech.co.uk