Convert date in Domain class that is created by EF6

Question

I create a model using EF6 ,one of my entities as you can see here :

public partial class Comment
    {
        public Comment()
        {
            this.Points = new HashSet<Point>();
        }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public int IdeaId { get; set; }
        public System.DateTime Date { get; set; }
        public string JurorId { get; set; }
        public string CommectDesc { get; set; }
        public string Point { get; set; }

        public virtual Idea Idea { get; set; }
        public virtual ICollection<Point> Points { get; set; }
    }

Can i convert date column using get{} in this class?I mean i need to converted my date ?because i save the date using datetime.now but when i want to show the date to user i have to convert it to persian date.

Answer 1

it's better to create new propery and decorate it with [System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.NotMapped] Attribute, Like this

public DateTime Date { get; set; }


[System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.NotMapped]
public DateTime PersianDate
    {
        get
        {
                var value  = ConvertToHijri(Date);

                return (value);
        }
    }

not you have extra field that not mapped to your database, when you want to show datetime in hijri format, you can use PersianDate property instead of Date Property