Get Earliest date from from IEnumerable<DateTime>

I have an IEnumerable<DateTime> with a number of dates in i开发者_开发问答t. How would I get the earliest date from that collection?

Thanks!

Dave

You can do this immediately with LINQ using Enumerable.Min.

DateTime minDate = dateCollection.Min();

Since DateTime implements IComparable<DateTime>, Enumerable.Min will use DateTime.CompareTo to find the minimum DateTime in the collection.

var earliest = collection.Min();