5 Ways to Mock DateTime.Now for Unit Testing in C#
With pros and cons of each.
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3 min readJul 20, 2021
Abstracting the application logic from DateTime.Now property is a common task for developers to enable unit testing.
When DateTime is hard-coded into logic, unit tests will not be reliable.
In the following example, a unit test can only pass if it is executed on a very fast machine:
