How do I format date in my object?

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In vb.net I have an object

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strEnteredDate

which is holding a date like this 2018-03-29T10:26:20
I would like to format this date to look like this 2018-03-29.
How do I do it?
What I have tried here below is getting an option strict error.

What I have tried:

strEnteredDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddThh: mm : ss").Replace("T", "hh", ":", "mm", ":", "ss"))

Posted 20-Apr-18 9:15am

Member 11403304

Updated 20-Apr-18 10:39am

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Solution 1

Did you try

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strEnteredDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

Posted 20-Apr-18 9:44am

Patrice T

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Member 11403304 20-Apr-18 15:55pm

This is giving the following error message. Option Strict On disallows implicit from 'string' to IFormatProvider

Patrice T 20-Apr-18 16:04pm

Show some code that we can run.

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Ralf Meier · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-20T10:40:00

Solution 2

I suppose that your entered 'Object' strEnteredDate is allready a string.
So you only need to cut the left 10 chars from this string and write it into a new string (or the same).
For example like this :

VB

strEnteredDate = strEnteredDate.substring(0,10)

Posted 20-Apr-18 10:40am

Ralf Meier

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Member 11403304 20-Apr-18 17:02pm

Thanks. You are right. My object is already a string. It is working now.