Find day of the week by inserting date in fromat dd/MM/yyyy

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Hi guys

I want to get day of the week by inserting the date but using format dd/MM/yyyy

Now this is what i did..

<pre lang="c#">Session["StartDate"]=09/10/2011
string ddMMyyyyFormat = Session["StartDate"].ToString();//Date in dd/MM/yyyy
string MMddyyyFormat =Convert.ToDateTime(ddMMyyyyFormat).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");

DateTime MMddyyyyDate = Convert.ToDateTime(MMddyyyFormat);
string dayOfWeek = MMddyyyyDate.DayOfWeek.ToString();</pre>

Now i get the day of the week as "Saturday" because its not converted to format MM/dd/yyyy

Posted 14-Oct-11 6:06am

Anele Ngqandu

Updated 14-Oct-11 18:49pm

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**theanil** · Answer 1 · 2011-10-14T07:39:00

Solution 1

C#

session["StartDate"] = 09/10/2011;
string abc = Session["StartDate"].ToString();
DateTime xyz = Convert.ToDateTime(abc);
string dayofweek = xyz.DayOfWeek.toString()

this is working on my machine.

Posted 14-Oct-11 7:39am

theanil

Macro Man · Answer 2 · 2011-10-14T07:41:00

Solution 2

DayOfWeek is a struct! Just use the int value instead and format it as desired. Demonstration:

Console.WriteLine("{0:00}", (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek);

Posted 14-Oct-11 7:41am

Macro Man

Updated 14-Oct-11 7:43am

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