How to get the current date without the time?

I am able to get date and time using:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

How can I get the current date and time separately in the DateTime format itself?

I am not using the DateTime picker dialog box in ASP.NET (C#).

Well, you can get just today's date as a DateTime using the Today property:

 DateTime today = DateTime.Today;

or more generally, you can use the Date property. For example, if you wanted the UTC date you could use:

 DateTime dateTime = DateTime.UtcNow.Date;

It's not very clear whether that's what you need or not though... if you're just looking to print the date, you can use:

Console.WriteLine(dateTime.ToString("d"));

or use an explicit format:

Console.WriteLine(dateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"));

See more about standard and custom date/time format strings. Depending on your situation you may also want to specify the culture.

If you want a more expressive date/time API which allows you to talk about dates separately from times, you might want to look at the Noda Time project which I started. It's not ready for production just yet, but we'd love to hear what you'd like to do with it...

See, here you can get only date by passing a format string. You can get a different date format as per your requirement as given below for current date:

DateTime.Now.ToString("M/d/yyyy");

>Result : "9/1/2015"

DateTime.Now.ToString("M-d-yyyy");

>Result : "9-1-2015"

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

> Result : "2015-09-01"

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");

>Result : "2015-09-01 09:20:10"

For more details take a look at MSDN reference for Custom Date and Time Format Strings

Use DateTime.Today property. It will return date component of DateTime.Now. It is equivalent of DateTime.Now.Date.
Starting from .NET 6 you might also consider using DateOnly and TimeOnly

Current Time :

DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss");

Current Date :

DateTime.Today.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy");

There is no built-in date-only type in .NET.

The convention is to use a DateTime with the time portion set to midnight.

The static DateTime.Today property will give you today's date.

You can use following code to get the date and time separately.

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string date = now.GetDateTimeFormats('d')[0];
string time = now.GetDateTimeFormats('t')[0];

You can also, check the MSDN for more information.

Use

txtdate.Text = DateTime.Today.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy");

I think you need separately date parts like (day, Month, Year)

> DateTime today = DateTime.Today;

Will not work for your case. You can get date separately so you don't need variable today to be as a DateTimeType, so lets just give today variable int Type because the day is only int. So today is 10 March 2020 then the result of

> int today = DateTime.Today.Day; > > int month = DateTime.Today.Month; > > int year = DateTime.Today.Year; > > MessageBox.Show(today.ToString()+ " - this is day. "+month.ToString()+ > " - this is month. " + year.ToString() + " - this is year");

would be "10 - this is day. 3 - this is month. 2020 - this is year"

In .Net6, you can use the new DateOnly Type :

DateOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Today)

You can use DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() like so:

var test = $"<b>Date of this report:</b> {DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString()}";

As of .Net 6 you can use:

 var dateOnly = DateOnly.FromDateTime(DateTime.Now);

Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.dateonly?view=net-6.0

string now = Convert.ToString(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString());
Console.WriteLine(now);
Console.ReadLine();

for month

DateTime.Now.ToString("MM");

for day

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd");

for year

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy");

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");