Dot Net Date Formatting
Hi, all of you people may have encountered situation where you wish to format your date for a specific format. This becomes very simple with Dot NET Framework. Suppose you have a date to be displayed. Let the date be 1st January 2009 Now, this can be displayed in various formats. The respective date-format-string is displayed alongside Eg: Displaying these can be done using the following LOC. DateTime today=DateTime.Now; string formattedDate=today.ToString( ); Eg: string formattedDate=today.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy"); =>01-Jan-2009 string formattedDate=today.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"); =>01-Jan/2009 string formattedDate=today.ToString("d-MMM-yy"); =>1-January-2009 Try out other combinations of your own and experience the power!!!!!!! Format Respective date-format-string 01/01/09 'dd/MM/yy' 01 Jan 09 'dd MM yy' 01 Jan 2009 'dd MM yyyy' 1 January 2009 'd MMM yyyy'