Convert Date from 6/05/2020 format to dd/MM/YYYY format

Question

I am facing a small issue which i am not able after trying so many things so here it goes ..... There is a text box in my page in which i am entering date and i want that da

Answer 1

DateTime doesn't store dates in any specific format - it uses an internal representation (what exactly shouldn't matter).

After parsing the string to a DateTime, there is no inherent format there. There is only a format when you output the value. What you see in the debugger is simply a conversion to a string using your system settings.

If you want to format the DateTime, use ToString with a format string:

dt.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

The converse also applies - if you need to parse the string unambiguously, use ParseExact or TryParseExact (both static members of of DateTime):

DateTime dt;

if(DateTime.TryParseExact(txtDate.Text, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                           DateTimeStyles.None, out td))
{
  // Valid date used in `txtDate.Text`, use dt now.
}

Read about custom and standard Date and Time format strings.