how to remove seconds in the DateTime.ParseExact

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hi in my below code i want to remove the Seconds from the date.Even I gave string format with out seconds but the DateTime.ParseExact is giving the time with the seconds(25:50:00)"00".How can i resolve this issue so that my time string comes with out any seconds

dateString = "08/14/2013 12:25 PM"
format = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt"

result = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, format, provider);
string alteredDt = result.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat);
Console.WriteLine(alteredDt}

Posted 13-Aug-13 3:25am

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Ron Beyer · Answer 1 · 2013-08-13T03:32:00

DateTime is stored internally as ticks. When you create a datetime, there are always seconds (even milliseconds) that are stored in the structure. You can't change this. Using different methods on the DateTime, like .Today give the date part, but the other parts of it are zero. This is by design.

If you don't want to display the seconds when you create the string, use a format string, like MM/dd/yyyy hh.mm and leave the tt part off.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2013-08-13T04:33:00

How come you know how to use the string format for System.DateTime for parsing and fail to do so for ToString?

Please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zdtaw1bw.aspx[^].

In this method, the parameter is the format. Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx[^].

Use custom format string and include hours and minutes, but not seconds ('s', 'ss'), pretty much as it's already done in your format string "format".

—SA

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