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Subin Jacob
Subin Jacob

Reputation: 4864

DateTime Converted to Invalid Format

I tried converting 9/29/2013 2:44:28 PM (mm/dd/yyyy) to dd/mm/yyyy format.

I got a strange Date after Converting.

I tried 

dateTimeVar.ToString("dd/mm/yyyy");

29/44/2013

The Date was a type of DateTime itself.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1545

Answers (4)

Soner Gönül
Soner Gönül

Reputation: 98740

MM is for months, mm is for minutes. That's why it gets your minutes (which is 44) instead of your month value.

Use it like;

dateTimeVar.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Check out;

And remember, / has special meaning when you use it as a date separator. It replace itself with your current culture date separator. Forcing to use with InvariantCulture would be better.

dateTimeVar.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Take a look at;

What if I want to convert a string in dd/MM/yyyy to DateTime?

Then you can use DateTime.ParseExact method.

Converts the specified string representation of a date and time to its DateTime equivalent using the specified format and culture-specific format information. The format of the string representation must match the specified format exactly.

As an example;

string s = "01/01/2013";
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(s, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Console.WriteLine(dt);

Output will be;

1/1/2013 12:00:00 AM

Here a DEMO.

Upvotes: 3

WraithNath
WraithNath

Reputation: 18013

Tim's answer is correct, but to remove the format string altogether you can use. 'ToShortDateString'

DateTime date = DateTime.Today;

var stringDate = date.ToShortDateString();
var stringDate2 = date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Upvotes: 0

V4Vendetta
V4Vendetta

Reputation: 38200

dateTimeVar.ToString("dd/mm/yyyy"); // Change to dd/MM/yyyy

The problem is mm stands for minute and you need MM which would be months

Upvotes: 2

Tim Schmelter
Tim Schmelter

Reputation: 460058

Lowercase mm means minutes, try this instead:

dateTimeVar.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

However, if this works depends on your local culture. If your current culture's date separator is different, / will be replaced with that. So if you want to enforce it use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture:

dateTimeVar.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Upvotes: 9

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