Remove hours:seconds:milliseconds in DateTime object

Question

I\'m trying to create a string from the DateTime object which yields the format mm:dd:yyyy.

Conventionally the DateTime object comes as

Answer 1

Usually, I am using DateTime.ToShortDateString() to convert in a Culture-aware manner to a string.

This way, you can format it to date only respecting the current formatting of the culture set to the current thread.

Answer 2

datetime DateWithTimeNoSeconds = 
DateTime.Now.Date.AddHours(DateTime.Now.Hour).AddMinutes(DateTime.Now.Minute);

This gets the current date & time's date and adds hours and minutes.

Answer 3

Something like this for date and time without seconds:

private DateTime _startTime;
public DateTime StartTime 
{ 
    get { return _startTime; } 
    set 
    { 
        _startTime = value.AddSeconds(-value.Second)
                          .AddMilliseconds(-value.Millisecond);   
    }
}