I want to display date in 09/07/2013 format instead of 09-jul-13.
Dim dt As Date = Date.Today
MsgBox(dt)
Like this ..
MsgBox(format(dt,"dd/MM/yyyy"))
if you want to display date along with time when you export to Excel then you can use this
xlWorkSheet.Cells(nRow, 3).NumberFormat = "dd/mm/yy h:mm AM/PM"
First, uppercase MM are months and lowercase mm are minutes.
You have to pass CultureInfo.InvariantCulture
to ToString
to ensure that /
as date separator is used since it would normally be replaced with the current culture's date separator:
MsgBox(dt.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture))
Another option is to escape that custom format specifier by embedding the / within ':
dt.ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy")
MSDN: The "/" Custom Format Specifier:
The "/" custom format specifier represents the date separator, which is used to differentiate years, months, and days. The appropriate localized date separator is retrieved from the
DateTimeFormatInfo.DateSeparator
property of the current or specified culture.
I found this catered for dates in 21st Century that could be entered as dd/mm or dd/mm/yy. It is intended to print an attendance register and asks for the meeting date to start with.
Sub Print_Register()
Dim MeetingDate, Answer
Sheets("Register").Select
Range("A1").Select
GetDate:
MeetingDate = DateValue(InputBox("Enter the date of the meeting." & Chr(13) & _
"Note Format" & Chr(13) & "Format DD/MM/YY or DD/MM", "Meeting Date", , 10000, 10000))
If MeetingDate = "" Then GoTo TheEnd
If MeetingDate < 36526 Then MeetingDate = MeetingDate + 36526
Range("Current_Meeting_Date") = MeetingDate
Answer = MsgBox("Date OK?", 3)
If Answer = 2 Then GoTo TheEnd
If Answer = 7 Then GoTo GetDate
ExecuteExcel4Macro "PRINT(1,,,1,,,,,,,,2,,,TRUE,,FALSE)"
TheEnd:
End Sub
Dim formattedDate As String = Date.Today.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")
Check link below
Try this.
var dateAsString = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
// dateAsString = "09/07/2013"
and also check this link for more formatting data and time