DateTime Format Strings?

Question

I have the date format string dd-mm-yy. Please can you tell me how to add hours and minutes to the string (i.e 13-03-2010.21.03) ....

DateTime.Today.ToString("dd-mm-yy") ?

Answer 1

You can use this:

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy.hh.mm")

If you want 24 hours:

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy.HH.mm")

See the MSDN documentation.

Note that the format string you first used is incorrect, as mm stands for minutes so you should have used MM for months.

You are also using Today, which does not have the time component (so it would always be 00:00:00). If you need those (hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds), you should use Now.

Answer 2

please check this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx and http://www.csharp-examples.net/string-format-datetime/ for more information

String.Format("{0:d/M/yyyy HH:mm:ss}", datetime)

Answer 3

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy.HH.mm");

mm is minutes, MM is months, so your current example is wrong.

Also, note that you need to use Now rather than Today, otherwise it'll always be 00.00

Answer 4

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy.HH.mm");

MM for Months mm for minutes

Answer 5

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy.HH.mm")

Change the Today to Now

Please note that mm = minutes and MM = months