DDay.iCal.Serialization.iCalendar.DateTimeSerializer.CoerceDateTime C# (CSharp) Method

        private DateTime CoerceDateTime(int year, int month, int day, int hour, int minute, int second, DateTimeKind kind)
        {
            DateTime dt = DateTime.MinValue;

            // NOTE: determine if a date/time value exceeds the representable date/time values in .NET.
            // If so, let's automatically adjust the date/time to compensate.
            // FIXME: should we have a parsing setting that will throw an exception
            // instead of automatically adjusting the date/time value to the
            // closest representable date/time?
            try
            {
                if (year > 9999)
                    dt = DateTime.MaxValue;
                else if (year > 0)
                    dt = new DateTime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, kind);
            }
            catch
            {
            }

            return dt;
        }