How can you show the date in a gridview as a date only instead of a datetime?

Question

I am pulling in date values from a sql server database using a gridview and and the date gets converted from

12/12/2009 to 12/12/2009 12:

Answer 1

set the dataformatstring value to "{0:d}"

Ex:

<asp:BoundField HeaderText="Date" DataField="Date_Field" ReadOnly="True" DataFormatString="{0:d}">
</asp:BoundField>

Answer 2

Try the below code:

    <asp:BoundField DataField="my_date" HeaderText="Date" 
                            ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="my_date" 
                            DataFormatString="{0:d}" />

In the above mentioned code, my_date is the date column of the sqlserver table. The DataFormatString="{0:d}" is the main portion of this code to resolve the particular issue of yours.

Answer 3

Within

asp:Label runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("DateAndTime") %>'

Try adding "{0:M-dd-yyyy}"

asp:Label runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("DateAndTime", "{0:M-dd-yyyy}") %>'

Answer 4

You can use the ToString() method with a mask:

ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");

UPDATE: Just realized it would be easier in your case to do this in the grid view template

<asp:BoundField DataField="MyDate" DataFormatString="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" />

Answer 5

You can use a DataAnnotations attribute and a DynamicField control; then you don't have to do the same formatting every time you want to format that field. There is an example showing how to do this here: http://www.asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/the-entity-framework-and-aspnet-%E2%80%93-getting-started-part-8

Answer 6

You can also use .ToShortDateString() on the DateTime Object if you are already manipulating the date in the RowDataBound