string represents date, and reformat it

Question

The following case: There is a string that has this format \"2012-02-25 07:53:04\"

But in the end, i rather want to end up with this format \"25-02-2012 07:53:04\"

Answer 1

You can parse this as a date object and then provide the formatting you want when using the date.ToString method:

date.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss");