converting datetime to yyyy/MM/dd format.

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Hello everyone,
i want to convert datetime.now to format yyyy/MM/dd but the converted format should also be in datetime,not in string.that is i dont want string.format method as it will return datetime as string.i want as datetime.Any help?

Posted 4-Mar-13 19:27pm

Thanks7872

Updated 4-Oct-13 10:47am

Toli Cuturicu

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Harikamalina 5-Mar-13 1:32am

take the string which show the date as string... convert it into date time using
Convert.ToDateTime(string Value);

Thanks7872 5-Mar-13 1:35am

DateTime daten = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.ParseExact(DateTime.Now.ToString(), "G",
CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-US")).ToString("yyyy/MM/dd"));
i have tried above code,but it is not giving me the desired output,like for today,the result should be 2013/05/03,but m not getting that....any suggessions?

Karthik Harve 5-Mar-13 1:37am

Why you want to cast datetime object to string and again back to datetime ? why cant you use same datetime object ?

Thanks7872 5-Mar-13 2:21am

because if i remove tostring("yyyy/MM/dd") than it is giving me the same string which i dont want....can you provide me the suggession to display datime.now in format e.g. 2003/03/23(that is 23rd march 2003)?

Richard MacCutchan 5-Mar-13 5:59am

DateTime objects are values, they do not have any format. The formatting is only used when you convert them to string types. You can add formatting details in the ToString() method; look at the documentation for full details.

Richard MacCutchan 5-Mar-13 7:27am

What do you mean "shame on codeproject"? Perhaps if you made more effort to look up the documentation instead of waiting for other people to do it for you, then you could have solved it quicker.

[no name] 5-Mar-13 7:54am

No... shame on you. You do realize that the people here are volunteers and answer as they can when they can. We are not here to do your bidding.

Thanks7872 5-Mar-13 7:31am

thats what i have done,man...i tried and solved,but posting question here doesnt mean only to solve it,it also helps getting better idea than we used....

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crazie.coder · Answer 1 · 2013-03-05T00:59:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Write like this

C#

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

you'll sure get your desire date format.

Posted 5-Mar-13 0:59am

crazie.coder

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Thanks7872 5-Mar-13 7:01am

thanks dear for your response.but this will give me the date in STRING not in DATETIME,i dont want that...well,after short reseach,i came to know that its not possible with DATETIME,because format corresponds to strings only,so i have changed my issue accordingly....thanks again...

johannesnestler · Answer 2 · 2013-10-04T05:15:00

What I always wonder about such questions is:

If someone learns C# how can he/she miss the MSDN site? The .NET docu can be reached by just pressing F1 in VisualStudio on any framework element - and it brings you (context-sensitive) to the documentation:

So have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.format(v=vs.80).aspx[^] for string formatting.

before asking further questions of this kind - not that you can't get the answer here (as you see) - I think you will get your answer faster and learn more by reading the documentation. If something there is unclear - that would make a good question...