C# format date

[classy_dog]

In a C# 2008 application, I will obtain the current date by using the statement:

DateTime.Now;

I want to read from a file that is in part of the directory path of: mm_dd_yy. Or in other words the format is: 09_27_12. Thus can you tell me how to change the date obtained from datetime.now and make it look like: 09_27_12?

[Ravi Bhavnani]

See this[^] link. /ravi

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[Lost User]

string date = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
string time = DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss");

[Keith Barrow]

Ravi has provided you with a link that should answer your question, so I'm not going to add to it. I'd like to make a suggestion as well. If you can, change the format of the date: yyyy-MM-dd yyyy_MM_dd or yyyymmdd or somesuch The format you have can be ambiguous between US and European date formats. This might not be a problem in itself (you may only ever deal in US dates). The other thing changing the date will do is allow you to sort the files by date via their filenames.

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[J4amieC]

You would use a DateFormat string of MM_dd_yy, which can either be passed to the ToString method on a DateTime:

var formatted = DateTime.Now.ToString("MM_dd_yy")

or used in a larger format string, say for example if you're building up a path:

var path = String.Format("Some/Directory_{0:MM_dd_yy}/somefile.txt",DateTime.Now);

Here's a live example of the latter: http://rextester.com/UTHQ72076[^]

[J4amieC]

This only slightly answers the OP question, and the bit it does get right, uses the wrong format for what the OP asked.

[KiranKumar Roy]

Try this.

protected string FormatDate()
{
string strTemp;
strTemp = DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yy").Replace("/", "_");
return strTemp;
}

KiranKumar Roy