why does DateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") give me dd-MM-yyyy?
C#.NetDatetimeC# Problem Overview
I want my datetime to be converted to a string that is in format "dd/MM/yyyy"
Whenever I convert it using DateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"), I get dd-MM-yyyy instead.
Is there some sort of culture info that I have to set?
C# Solutions
Solution 1 - C#
Slash is a date delimiter, so that will use the current culture date delimiter.
If you want to hard-code it to always use slash, you can do something like this:
DateTime.ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy")
Solution 2 - C#
Pass CultureInfo.InvariantCulture as the second parameter of DateTime, it will return the string as what you want, even a very special format:
DateTime.Now.ToString("dd|MM|yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
will return: 28|02|2014
Solution 3 - C#
Add CultureInfo.InvariantCulture as an argument:
using System.Globalization;
...
var dateTime = new DateTime(2016,8,16);
dateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Will return:
"16/08/2016"
Solution 4 - C#
If you use MVC, tables, it works like this:
<td>@(((DateTime)detalle.fec).ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy"))</td>
Solution 5 - C#
Dumb question/answer perhaps, but have you tried dd/MM/yyyy? Note the capitalization.
mm is for minutes with a leading zero. So I doubt that's what you want.
This may be helpful: http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View00FF7904-B510-468C-A2C8-F859AA20581F.htm