.NET Format String 102: DateTime Format String

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Peter Ritchie — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:07:54 GMT

Hi Kathy. Blog entries on topics covered in MSDN are always welcomed! It's always good to have multiple perspectives, don't let a topics coverage in MSDN sway you from blogging about it.

Thanks

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Kris — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:49:24 GMT

Thank you. This is much better than reading the MSDN documentation. Conscise and right on target!

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KathyKam — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:01:09 GMT

Hey Kris and Peter, Thanks for the feedback! :) Are there any topics you think is particularly poorly done in MSDN? Or are there any topics that are just not covered enough in MSDN? I am looking for something that EVERYONE uses like ... well... format strings. :) Cheers, Kathy

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Richard — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:42:56 GMT

"%d" should return "7", not "07".

Also, the output for "H" and "h" is the wrong way round:
- "H" uses the 24-hour clock ("15");
- "h" uses the 12-hour clock ("3")

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KathyKam — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:18:02 GMT

Hi Richard, Thanks for catching it! Thanks, Kathy

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Jason Haley — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:47:46 GMT

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Chris Love — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:21:26 GMT

Kathy this is a great peice of work. I am always messing up with Date Formatting and this will be a great reverence page for me in the future.

Date Format Reference

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:24:10 GMT

I am always looking for good references on the net and one of the things I tend to have problems with is dealing for date formatting. Katy Kam has a great entry on her blog which should serve as a great reference for Date formatting in .NET.

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Depechie — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:57:33 GMT

Hey Kathy,

I've found out that the DateTime formatting rules are a bit awkward when you use them in an international setting.

When you change the regional settings, only the Long Date notation of .Net follow them... and not the Short Date notation !

Resulting in a weird output when you use DateTime.Now.ToString("t") !

Just check it, set the English (US) settings to show 24 hours notation and then perform DateTime.Now.ToString("t"), you will see this still gives the 12 hours notation and that is for a programmer a not expected result.

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Rolf — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:48:28 GMT

How sad I have to get this info here and you see the need to publish it.

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Muhammad Ali — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:51:45 GMT

I LOVE YOU KATHY ! .. .MSDN SIMPLIFIED! GREAT REFERENCE!

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Thorsten's Blog — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:51:22 GMT

Eine Übersicht gibt es hier:http://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2006/03/29/564426.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2006/09/29/.NET-Format-String-102_3A00_-DateTime-Format-String.aspx

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Kevin Isom's Blog — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:38:51 GMT

Kathy Kam : .NET Format String 102: DateTime Format StringFor those times when you can't remember what to add to get the A.D. after the year.

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Joe Wood — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:14:42 GMT

Thanks Kathy, great post. Worth keeping this on file.

My only issue is that it's pity some of these custom formats aren't supported by the DateTimePicker - it must have its own formatting code!

Maybe this could be fixed in the Acropolis DateTimePicker :)

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Kennith Mann III — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:37:30 GMT

I've noticed that using "G" does not yield a 24 hour time, but instead a 12 hour (with AM/PM).

If it helps, C# .NET 2.0, Winforms, VS2005.

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Rajesh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:07:08 GMT

Nice article

I am getting date as "2001-03-01-09.41.08.000000". How to format this to a date. I have tried with DateTime.parse("2001-03-01-09.41.08.000000") but it is giving me error

Please Help me. I am stuck badly

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farhan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:54:05 GMT

Is there any way to get the format based on the current system datetime format??

Thanks

Farhan

farhan.ejaz@gmail.com

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Prashanth — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:42:10 GMT

Ok thank you,

but i want that how can i compare the DataTime in a given format

thanks

Prashanth

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jeevs — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:04:04 GMT

Thanks a lot after long search i get this thankyou Kathy!It helps me lot

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Zafree — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:34:57 GMT

Kathy...how do i use the DateTime string to put in a name of a file when it is been uploaded by a user??

such as this:

The Date : 13 January 2008

The Time : 05.34.36 pm

The File That is going to be Uploaded : Jagged.doc

Therefore the file's name changes like this Jagged20080113173436.doc

something similar to this...how do i do it?

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SA — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:37:32 GMT

Nice post

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CurrentCulture, CurrentUICulture and DateTime strings

Kathy Kam — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:27:21 GMT

There are a lot of blogs out that that tries to explain which is what, and why it is the way it is. To

Saving "TIME" in SQL Table Field

Farrukh Rafique — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:51:58 GMT

Hi there,

I have made several attempts in several different ways / formats to save time in SQL Table field. In every case current date also get saved.

I hope u will bring out a solution of this problem of mine.

;)

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Ramesh Sahoo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Conversion from string "22/04/2008" to type 'Date' is not valid

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Pruthvi — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:43:39 GMT

DateTime.Now.ToString("G") does not give me 24 hour format. ??????

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Neeraj P K — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:21:43 GMT

Hi...,

This was very helpful.

I was just searching for "2008-06-16 10:40:55 AM" format for date. After a long search I foud your article and saved a lot of time for me.

Thanks a lot...

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Samruddhi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:23:20 GMT

Nice post,

is there any way to format a date string

for eg.

(06/07/2008) into (6th July 2008)?

thanks in advance

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Cynical Pirate Industries — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:12:45 GMT

Make your code less crazy - Format Strings

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Chiru — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:43:30 GMT

Helpful and Nice post.Thank you Kathy

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jiv — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:08:26 GMT

Kathy thanks a lot & lot i found in ur article only.

this is very helpfull.

:) jiv

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Mahesh — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:53:27 GMT

This was very helpful.

I was just searching for "2008-06-16 10:40:55 AM" format for date. After a long search I foud your article and saved a lot of time for me.

Thanks a lot...

.NET Format Strings

CodeBork — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:00:12 GMT

.NET format strings rock. These are roughly equivalent to the old-school C-style sprintf() functions, with their %d, etc., symbols. There's some serious power to these strings, however; think PHP's date() function on acid, and for more than just dates

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sampath — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:46:13 GMT

its really a very good help

Thank you.

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Brad C — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:45:20 GMT

great breakdown on this topic, very helpful, thanks!

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Rahat Ali — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:39:13 GMT

Kathy thanks a lot for suca a marvelous management in display this useful information. It is very handy.

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B Prashanth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:52 GMT

Finest explanation... Awesome. Thanks.

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Tony, Switzerland — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:22:52 GMT

Thank you very much.

Without this valuable information I could not have solved my 24 hour-clock-problem.

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David C, London — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:30:05 GMT

Thanks Kathy, very helpful posting. I like your style - very clear explanation with good examples - this being an area that is simple but hasn't ever been explained clearly for me before. Cheers David

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How to find no. of Months B/W two dates — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:48:02 GMT

How to find no. of Months B/W two dates?

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Ben — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:16:36 GMT

Thanks so much! I hate trying to find the date/time formats in MSDN and never remember how to "get there". Thanks to this article, I fixed a nasty bug in my application.

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Carlos Ibarra — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:13:11 GMT

Thanks for this summary.

You can also format DateTimes inline in a string like this:

Console.WriteLine(String.Format("The current ISO 8601 UTC timestamp is {0:yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss}",DateTime.UtcNow"));

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MynameisBond — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:46:53 GMT

hi,i got a question about Datetime:

in glob run(for test),Datetime format in Glob run is different ,it changes ":" to ".".even if change it to ":" in contorl panel or use CultureInfo or use datetime.tostring(formatstring),we still get it ".", like 4/17/2009 10.12.

do u have any idea how to with this problem?

tks:)

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Vivek — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:24:19 GMT

Thanks Buddy it really Usefully

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Al — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:32:15 GMT

Hi Kathy,

How about a reference for formatting Numbers/Decimals/Currency.

It would be especially useful to show these as BOTH just normal Strings and within a control i.e. with the # binding code

Cheers

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Noble — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:53:15 GMT

good one..this helped me to finish problems .. thank you Kathy...