Need Help with DateTime in C#

[LoanB]

Hi There.

I have a variable called dtDate. I want to assign today\s date to it in short format:

E.G.: 2007/12/07

However I get it in the following format:

2007/12/07 0:00:00 - It includes the time.

How can I just get the date?

I have tried: the dtDate.ToShortString() etc, but with no success.

Thanks,

Lóan

[nateraaaa]

What about .ToShortDateString()? If you want to rearrange the position of the year, month, date you will need to use String.Format.

DateTime on msdn

Nathan

[LoanB]

Hi Nathan

Appologies I meant .ToShortDateString() not ".ToShortString()"

Still returns the time as well.

[Plater]

DateTime objects will always store a "date and time"
You can format the string version of it with .ToString()

So:

string mydatestring="";
mydatestring=DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd");
//mydatestring is now "20071207"
 

[LoanB]

Hey guys

I feel like a bit of an A*s, In my database the field name was "Dates" and in the code I had "Date" - natuarally not going to work. Hence the problem I had is now fixed.

As my field type is DateTime in the Database I could not use ToShortDateString(), us assign it to a String.

Well all is well, and my C# knowledge is expanding

Thanks Nathan and Plater!

[drutchlin]

To get just todays date use DateTime.Today()

[sumitgupta10]

Hi,
To get just todays date,try this one,
DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString()