How to format DateTime columns in DataGridView?

I'm using a DataGridView with object data binding to display information about logging entities in a system, retrieved via SOAP from a remote service. One of the columns is called "Last action" and means the last time the entity logged a message. It is a System.DateTime value. When I read the SOAP response (example below), he timestamp obviously contains all the information, up to second fractions.

<LoggingEntity>
<host>marty86ce</host>
<process>10148</process>
<logger>http_core</logger>
<appName>httpd</appName>
<ffda>true</ffda>
<lastAction>2010-10-27T12:00:19.5117509Z</lastAction>
<lastHeartbeat>0001-01-01T00:00:00</lastHeartbeat>
<channelId>em_9BA2A2B4D0B6E66</channelId>
<ffdaChannelId>em_E7C8D1D4DE8EEB9</ffdaChannelId>
</LoggingEntity>

When I display it on the table, I instead can read up to the minutes I use the following code to do the data binding when I press the refresh button

public void RefreshEntities()
{
    IEntityManagement management = EntityPlugin.GetProxy();
    LoggingEntity[] result = management.FindLoggingEntities(new TemplateQuery { ffdaSpecified = true, ffda = true }); //Remote invocation

    Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate { gridEntities.DataSource = result; })); //THIS does the data binding from the array

    Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate { btnRefresh.Enabled = true; }));
}

I would like to know how to control column formatting of data bound values. I think that the format dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm comes from my system's settings. How to override formatting settings programmatically?

Thank you in advance

Full solution code on Subversion (FFDAGui program) for the Logbus-ng open source project.

If it is a windows form Datagrid, you could use the below code to format the datetime for a column

dataGrid.Columns[2].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss";

EDIT :

Apart from this, if you need the datetime in AM/PM format, you could use the below code

dataGrid.Columns[2].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt";

Use Column.DefaultCellStyle.Format property or set it in designer

You can set the format you want:

dataGridViewCellStyle.Format = "dd/MM/yyyy";
this.date.DefaultCellStyle = dataGridViewCellStyle;
// date being a System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewTextBoxColumn

Published by Microsoft in Standard Date and Time Format Strings:

dataGrid.Columns[2].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "d"; // Short date

That should format the date according to the person's location settings.

This is part of Microsoft's larger collection of Formatting Types in .NET.

You can set the format in aspx, just add the property "DateFormatString" in your BoundField.

DataFormatString="{0:dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss}"

I used these code Hope it could help

dataGridView2.Rows[n].Cells[3].Value = item[2].ToString();
dataGridView2.Rows[n].Cells[3].Value = Convert.ToDateTime(item[2].ToString()).ToString("d");

string stringtodate = ((DateTime)row.Cells[4].Value).ToString("MM-dd-yyyy");
textBox9.Text = stringtodate;