C# Date formatting and Parsing
Posted in C# Programming on March 29th, 2010 by phoenixdigitalHere is a post so I can easily find the correct format for dates
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | // create date time 2008-03-09 16:05:07.123 DateTime dt = new DateTime(2008, 3, 9, 16, 5, 7, 123); String.Format("{0:y yy yyy yyyy}", dt); // "8 08 008 2008" year String.Format("{0:M MM MMM MMMM}", dt); // "3 03 Mar March" month String.Format("{0:d dd ddd dddd}", dt); // "9 09 Sun Sunday" day String.Format("{0:h hh H HH}", dt); // "4 04 16 16" hour 12/24 String.Format("{0:m mm}", dt); // "5 05" minute String.Format("{0:s ss}", dt); // "7 07" second String.Format("{0:f ff fff ffff}", dt); // "1 12 123 1230" sec.fraction String.Format("{0:F FF FFF FFFF}", dt); // "1 12 123 123" without zeroes String.Format("{0:t tt}", dt); // "P PM" A.M. or P.M. String.Format("{0:z zz zzz}", dt); // "-6 -06 -06:00" time zone |
as well as the way to call TryParseExact
1 2 3 4 5 6 | DateTime completedDateEnd; if (DateTime.TryParseExact(Request["completedDateEnd"], "yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.AssumeLocal, out completedDateEnd) { // do stuff } |
also remember to add this to the using statements at the top of the page
1 | using System.Globalization; |