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user180708
user180708

Reputation: 427

Converting Date to English Date

I've just started using C#. I'm trying to create a static method that takes a string as such; 2018-03-15T08:50:00-05:00 and converts it to Mar 3, 2018. I've researched this for a long time but none of the questions seem to convert to this format, rather all of the answers convert to dd-mm-yyyy.

I think it would be something like this:

public static string ToProperDate(this string input)
    {
       return String.Format("{0:dddd, MMMM d, yyyy}", input);
    }

Could someone please help me? Thank-you so much.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 427

Answers (1)

Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman

Reputation: 157048

You should parse the text to a DateTime first to ease formatting it.

So change the input to a DateTime instance:

public static string ToProperDate(this DateTime input)
{
   return String.Format("{0:dddd, MMMM d, yyyy}", input);
}

Or parse it in your method:

public static string ToProperDate(this string input)
{
   DateTime d = DateTime.Parse(input);

   return String.Format("{0:dddd, MMMM d, yyyy}", d);
}

Upvotes: 5

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