how to give format DateTime.Date?

Question

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now dt.Date is created to 31.10.2012 00:00:00 .it is created to dd.mm.yyyy format but i need dd/mm/yyyy. Can i use: return new DateTime(d.Year, d.Month

Answer 1

DateTime, numeric types and most other types do not store their values in a formatted way. Rather they store their data using a binary representation. If you want to display this data to the user, you must convert it to a string. This conversion involves formatting the data.

string formattedDate = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy",
                                             CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Or

Console.WriteLine("Date = {0:dd/MM/yyyy}", DateTime.Now);

Console.WriteLine converts the date into a string in order to write it to the console.

Answer 2

System.DateTime does not have any format. You can view its string representation in format. Try this

Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.Date.ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy"));

Answer 3

Just the way to convert to string, DateTime itself has no format:

var result = DateTime.Now.Date
                     .ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Answer 4

In you case you can simply use :

dt.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Anyway there al the string format you can use with DateTime : Here.

Answer 5

The DateTime struct doesn't store any formatting information internally. If you want to output the DateTime instance as a formatted string, you just need to call ToString() with the proper format string:

var date = DateTime.Now;
var formattedString = date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

If you need more information on exactly which specifiers to use in your format string, check out:

MSDN - Custom Date and Time Format Strings

Answer 6

DateTime structure always has the Date and Time stored in it. If you need to extract the date alone as text you can do the following.

var date = DateTime.Now.ToString("d");
Console.WriteLine(date);

This will print the date as in the format as specified by the culture set in the system. The list of standard datetime format strings supported by dotnet framework can be found here