How to convert a Date to a formatted string in VB.net?

Question

There seems to be a million questions here on converting a string to a Date, but not vice-versa. When I convert a Date object to a string using mydate.toString

Answer 1

you can do it using the format function, here is a sample:

Format(mydate, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

Answer 2

Dim timeFormat As String = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
objBL.date = Convert.ToDateTime(txtDate.Value).ToString(timeFormat)

Answer 3

myDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

the capital HH is for 24 hours format as you specified

Answer 4

I like:

Dim timeFormat As String = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
myDate.ToString(timeFormat)

Easy to maintain if you need to use it in several parts of your code, date formats always seem to change sooner or later.

Answer 5

You can use the ToString overload. Have a look at this page for more info

So just Use myDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

or something equivalent