Converting Dates

[yu217171]

Hi everyone,

Just a simple question which I'm sure all of you can answer. How do I convert a date in the form MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY?

Thanks in advance,

Keith

 

[Isadore]

Keith: There is a series of formatting Date/time codes, e.g.,

D: long date
d: short date
f: long date, short time
...
... and so forth, e.g.,

Respsonse.Write(dtmDate.ToString("d"))

..or using a formating statement:

Response.Write(String.Format({0}, DateTime.Now))
--> April 12, 2004

...in a DataGrid column you wight use:

DataFormatString="{0:dd MMM yyyy}"

..do a quick search here at Tek-Tips, lots of threads on formatting ---

 

[yu217171]

Thanks I got it to work.

strDate = "01/31/2004";
DateTime myDate = DateTime.Parse (strDate);
myDate = myDate.ToString ("MM/dd/yyyy");

Jumped in from C++ and Java. C# is very similiar =)

Keith

 

[Isadore]

good luck Kieth, hope to see you around -- Tek Tips is a great place for technical discussions - there are quite a few here who are truly 'wizards' at this stuff... so well worth the visit.

 

[yu217171]

Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll be sure to hang around and learn a lot.

Keith

 

[cappmgr]

Keith:
I liked your solution and tried it.
Is there a typo because you can not implicitly convert a DateTime to a string. Did I miss something?
Marty

 

[yu217171]

What's the error that you get?

myDate = myDate.ToString ("MM/dd/yyyy");

That above line should work fine. I'm using C# syntax. You may have to modify your object declarations with VB (if in fact that is what you're using).

Keith

 

[cappmgr]

Keith:
Here is the code

string strDate = "01/31/2004";
DateTime myDate = DateTime.Parse (strDate);
myDate = myDate.ToString ("MM/dd/yyyy");
Console.WriteLine("myDate " + myDate);

Here is the error
error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to
'System.DateTime'

This is the offending line which makes sense to me
myDate = myDate.ToString ("MM/dd/yyyy");

Marty

 

[yu217171]

string strDate = "01/31/2004";
DateTime myDate = DateTime.Parse (strDate);
string NewDate = myDate.ToString ("dd/MM/yyyy");
Console.WriteLine("NewDate " + myDate);

Sorry it was indeed a typo.

Keith