DateTime & string format question

[Trevor Balcom]

Hello, I am new to C# and cannot figure out how to do something simple. How
can I build two strings out of a DateTime object? I need one string to
contain the DateTime's date in YYMMDD format. The other string should
contain the DateTime's time in HHMMSS format. Both strings should always
return a length of 6 characters (they should have leading zero if neccessary
to pad each field out to two digits). There should be no delimeter
characters in the strings, just the digits. e.g: "040104" for 1/4/2004,
"135259" for 1:52:59 PM. Any advice will be appreciated.

[Munsifali Rashid]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tringtopic.asp
has details about the ToString() method of the DateTime object.

To get the date, you could use:
string myDate = myDateTimeObject.ToString("d").Replace("/", "");

To get the time, you could use:
string myTime = myDateTimeObject.ToString("T").Replace(":", "");

Hope this helps,

Mun

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"Trevor Balcom" <tb*****@attbi.co> wrote in message
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Hello, I am new to C# and cannot figure out how to do something simple. How can I build two strings out of a DateTime object? I need one string to
contain the DateTime's date in YYMMDD format. The other string should
contain the DateTime's time in HHMMSS format. Both strings should always
return a length of 6 characters (they should have leading zero if neccessary to pad each field out to two digits). There should be no delimeter
characters in the strings, just the digits. e.g: "040104" for 1/4/2004,
"135259" for 1:52:59 PM. Any advice will be appreciated.

[Brian W]

See if this helps:
string s1 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyMMdd");
string s2 = DateTime.Now.ToString("hhmmss");
HTH
Brian W

"Trevor Balcom" <tb*****@attbi.co> wrote in message
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Hello, I am new to C# and cannot figure out how to do something simple. How can I build two strings out of a DateTime object? I need one string to
contain the DateTime's date in YYMMDD format. The other string should
contain the DateTime's time in HHMMSS format. Both strings should always
return a length of 6 characters (they should have leading zero if neccessary to pad each field out to two digits). There should be no delimeter
characters in the strings, just the digits. e.g: "040104" for 1/4/2004,
"135259" for 1:52:59 PM. Any advice will be appreciated.

[Rob Teixeira [MVP]]

Be very careful. The formats you chose (short date for example) are subject
to regional formatting rules. For example, in the U.S., March 5 would yeild
"3/5" whereas in most European countries you would get "5/3". If Trevor is
looking for specific placement of those digits, then I would suggest a more
literal format string (like the ones in Brian's post).

-Rob Teixeira [MVP]

"Munsifali Rashid" <mun.news@#RemoveToReply#cordlessmouse.co.uk> wrote in
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tringtopic.asp has details about the ToString() method of the DateTime object.

To get the date, you could use:
string myDate = myDateTimeObject.ToString("d").Replace("/", "");

To get the time, you could use:
string myTime = myDateTimeObject.ToString("T").Replace(":", "");

Hope this helps,

Mun

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Munsifali Rashid
http://www.munsplace.com/

[Munsifali Rashid]

Yep, good point. In this case, Brian's post would be a better solution.

Thanks for pointing that out Rob :-)

Cheers,

Mun
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http://www.munsplace.com/


"Rob Teixeira [MVP]" <RobTeixeira@@msn.com> wrote in message
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Be very careful. The formats you chose (short date for example) are subject to regional formatting rules. For example, in the U.S., March 5 would yeild "3/5" whereas in most European countries you would get "5/3". If Trevor is
looking for specific placement of those digits, then I would suggest a more literal format string (like the ones in Brian's post).

-Rob Teixeira [MVP]