How to find the day name for a given date in web forms

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I would like to find the name of the day for a given date that is in a variable 'v_DespatchDate'.

DateTime v_todaydt = DateTime.Today;
v_DespatchDate = v_todaydt.AddDays(7).Date.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd");

Posted 1-Jan-14 20:38pm

S.Rajendran from Coimbatore

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DateTime v_todaydt = DateTime.Today;
v_DespatchDate = v_todaydt.AddDays(7).Date.ToString("D");

plz try this................

Posted 1-Jan-14 22:17pm

M.R.A.

Solution 1

Google is your friend: a very quick search found the result in less than 30 seconds: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762911(v=vs.110).aspx[^]
In future, please try to do at least basic research yourself, and not waste your time or ours.

Posted 1-Jan-14 20:44pm

OriginalGriff

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S.Rajendran from Coimbatore 2-Jan-14 3:08am

As advised by you have already seen this link. And using that I tried in my code like:
//DateTime dateValue = new DateTime(2008, 6, 11);
//string v_d=dateValue.ToString("dddd");
//Console.WriteLine(dateValue.ToString("dddd")
I tried with the variable like: DateTime dateValue = new DateTime(v_DespatchDate);
It didnt work. The error is: Error 4 Argument '1': cannot convert from 'string' to 'long'.
I just wanted to know how that variable should be used.
Thank you.

OriginalGriff 2-Jan-14 3:52am

That implies that you are trying to pass a string to a DateTime Constructor:
string v_DespatchDate = v_todaydt.AddDays(7).Date.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd");
DateTime dateValue = new DateTime(v_DespatchDate);
Which is unnecessary, when you have the datetime value in the middle already!
Try
DateTime v_todaydt = DateTime.Today;
DateTime dateValue = v_todaydt.AddDays(7).Date;
string v_DespatchDate = dateValue.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd");
string dayOfWeek = dateValue.ToString("dddd");

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-01T21:34:00

Hi

Try like this..

C#

DateTime v_todaydt = DateTime.Today;
      var v_DespatchDate = v_todaydt.AddDays(7).Date.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd");

      DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(v_DespatchDate, "yyyy/MM/dd", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

      var dayname = (dateTime.ToString("dddd"));

for casting use : DateTime.ParseExact

for getting day name use : .ToString("dddd")