Date Time Formatting in C#

In this article I will show you how you can format your date in a specific date format in c#. This solution you can use in you asp.net, mvc as well as in your windows application. It’s a simple solution.

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So here is the table to format the date time string as you required.

Date Format	Detail	Output format
d	Short date pattern	6/15/2009
D	Long date pattern	Monday, June 15
f	Full date/time pattern (short time	Monday, June 15, 2009 1:45 PM
F	Full date/time pattern (long time).	Monday, June 15, 2009 1:45:30 PM
g	General date/time pattern (short time)	6/15/2009 1:45 PM
G	General date/time pattern (long time)	6/15/2009 1:45:30 PM
M	Month/day pattern	June
m	Month/day pattern	June
O	Round-trip date/time pattern	2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000-07:00
o	Round-trip date/time pattern	2009-06-15T13:45:30.0000000-07:00
R	RFC1123 pattern	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:45:30 GMT
r	RFC1123 pattern	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:45:30 GMT
s	Sortable date/time pattern	2009-06-15T13:45:30
t	Short time pattern	1:45 PM
T	Long date time pattern	1:45:30 PM
u	Universal sortable date/time pattern	2009-06-15 13:45:30Z
U	Universal full date/time pattern	Monday, June 15, 2009 8:45:30 PM
Y	Year month pattern	June, 2009
y	Year month pattern	June, 2009

Now I show you an example. In this example I will show you how you can format the date time string.

Eg.

Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("d"));

Output:

1/15/2016