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Reputation: 2393

How to print only Date and Time (not seconds) in C# in efficient way?

I'm using LastWriteTime property for a file which I use, to print the last modified time. However, here when I use I get a value like

"2/12/2011 11:58:45 AM".

(i) Can you pls help to ignore seconds here meaning the output should be like: 2/12/2011 11:58 AM

(ii) Also, how do I ensure that I'm taking care of time zones as in the file LastWriteTime could be as per other GEO timings. Can you pls help to take care of this?

(iii) Also how to take care of Culture problems here as CurrentCulture would be different for machines?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 614

Answers (2)

Logan B. Lehman
Logan B. Lehman

Reputation: 5007

The patterns for DateTime.ToString ( 'g' ) :

0    MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm    08/22/2006 06:30

1    MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt 08/22/2006 06:30 AM

2    MM/dd/yyyy H:mm     08/22/2006 6:30

3    MM/dd/yyyy h:mm tt  08/22/2006 6:30 AM

Source: DateTime.ToString Patterns

Upvotes: 4

ionden
ionden

Reputation: 12786

You can use the g format to represent the date as you wish:

 string date = File.GetLastWriteTime("file").ToString("g");

As for the TimeZone, DateTime doesn't contain relevant TimeZone information. You'll have to handle this yourself.

Maybe this will help you: http://hashfactor.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/c-parsing-datetime-with-timezone/

Upvotes: 1

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