How do I convert date to string

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How you convert from a date to string in c#

Posted 6-Feb-14 2:51am

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Pheonyx 6-Feb-14 8:56am

This sort of question proves you are not prepared to help yourself. I guarantee that if you put that exact question word for word into Google (or any decent / semi-decent search engine) you will get the answer to your question.

Peter Leow 6-Feb-14 9:30am

There are abundant examples on the web, just ask google.

agent_kruger 6-Feb-14 12:02pm

please search on google before asking here, sir.

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Lots of ways to turn a DateTime into a string; try these:

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DateTime aDate = DateTime.Now;

string s1 = aDate.ToString();

string s2 = aDate.ToString("'Date:' yyyy-MM-dd 'Time:' HH:mm:ss");

string s3 = String.Format("{0}", aDate);

Set a break-point in your code, and inspect the values returned to get a sense of what is possible. There are other, advanced options, using IFormatProvider for dealing with DateTime to string conversion taking into account different languages; see: [^].

Posted 6-Feb-14 3:27am

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Karthik_Mahalingam 6-Feb-14 9:31am

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DateTime.ToString[^]

Posted 6-Feb-14 2:53am

Maarten Kools

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A date object (like most objects) has a .ToString() method on it.
Simply call that and hey presto your date is now a string.

If you Google ToString (I would but I think you should be able to do that yourself) you will get a list of overloads that are available to define formatting of the string etc.

Alternatively, you can do:

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String.Format({0}, mydateobject);

and that will convert it to a string.

Posted 6-Feb-14 2:54am

Pheonyx

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BillWoodruff 6-Feb-14 9:22am

Your code example will not compile because you omitted the required quotes around the zero.

Karthik_Mahalingam 6-Feb-14 9:31am

yes

Solution 3

it's simple you can search on google. like this hit to link button http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+convert+date+to+string+in+c%23+language[^]

Posted 6-Feb-14 3:13am

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Pete O'Hanlon · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-06T03:42:00

As with most things that appear simple on the surface, there is a hidden complexity here. When you talk about converting a date to a string, it's important to realise a few things.

First of all, there is no inherent Date type in .NET. There is a DateTime object, and this indicates that dates always have a time component. So, if you are after the date part alone then you need to consider outputting the date using either ToShortDateString() or ToLongDateString().

Outputting a date, by default, uses the CurrentCulture's DateTimeFormatInfo to control how the date is displayed. It's a very rare case that you should be interfering with this. User's tend to set this to the culture of their own country, so changing how it's output can end up causing confusion. Consider this example - the user wants to check on the 13th of November 2014 to see that they haven't missed an appointment and your application pops up to show that the appointment is on 11/12/2014 - the user thinks - great, I've got plenty of time. However, your application has overridden the format so it's using MM/dd/yyyy and the user thinks it's dd/MM/yyyy (that's what they set). The appointment date was actually on the 12th November.

If you need to change the format of the date, you can specify the format that it needs to be output using .ToString(dateFormatSpecifier); where the dateFormatSpecifier identifies how you want the date to be output[^]. Alternatively, you can use ToString with the CultureInfo that matches the output that you want. For instance, if you want to format the date as a US date, use:

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myDate.ToString("d", new CultureInfo("en-US"));

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