A New Way To Deal With Time In .NET 8

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.NET 8 Preview 4 is out and it brings a bunch of goodness. Among them, a great new abstraction that will make your unit tests really happy.
I go over all the details in this video.
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[@Khl8122]

A simpler way is to write methods as “pure functions”. In this case, the CreateGame’s signature will include an additional argument which is the date

[@kristianaranda]

thank you for sharing your knowledge, I love your videos and your teaching style!

[@juliocasal]

Thank you, you're welcome!

[@dariusChS]

Thanks for sharing,

[@juliocasal]

You're welcome!

[@Davsan1]

Great video!

[@juliocasal]

Thank you!

[@user-ti7zu7wz5e]

Hello. I have a question, what are the benefits of TimeProvider? I could have a interface that abstracts the DateTimeOffset or atleast the .utcnow
What would be the advantages comparing to mine solution?
Always learning with you, thank you so much.

[@juliocasal]

Main benefit is that the class is there for you to use out of the box. If you already have something equivalent, no need to change. But, for new projects, it can be a nice time saver.