How to Get the date-time of last windows shutdown using .NET

The solution is below, DateTime can be achieved from a byte array with fewer statements using the BitConverter.The following code will give the correctDateTime from the registry

public static DateTime GetLastShutdownDate()

{     string rKey = @"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows";     Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey key = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(rKey);      string rValueName = "ShutdownTime";     byte[] val = (byte[]) key.GetValue(rValueName);     long AsLongValue= BitConverter.ToInt64(val, 0);     return DateTime.FromFileTime(AsLongValue); }