Formatting Date and Time

Ruben · June 4, 2010, 9:30am

hi

i have a textfield taking a string representing a specific DateTime format. I want the string representing the DateTime to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, how can i do this?

thanks

duck · June 4, 2010, 11:34am

Is your value coming from an actual DateTime object? If so, you can do this:

yourTextField.text = String.Format("{0:yyyy-MM-dd}", yourDateTimeObj);

Tetrad · June 18, 2010, 4:09pm

Use DateTime.TryParse.

You'll probably run into issues if you try to overwrite the string the user is typing while they do that, but if you have an input field and a separate display field that shows the "parsed" date time (formatted like Duck's answer) that would work.

FarazKhalid · June 2, 2014, 12:32pm

string computerDate;
string computerTime;
void computerDateAndTime() // read computer current time and date
{
string currentTime=System.DateTime.Now.ToString();
int z=0;
string add=“”;
for(int i=0;i<currentTime.Length;i++)
{
char item = currentTime*;*

```
 	if(item==' ')*
```
```
 	{*
```
```
 		switch (z)*
```
```
 		{*
```
```
 		case 0:*
```
```
 			computerDate=add;*
```
```
 			break;*
```
```
 		case 1:*
```
```
 			computerTime=add;*
```
```
 			break;*
```
```
 		}*
```
```
 		z++;*
```
```
 		add="";*
```
```
 	}*
```
```
 	else*
```
```
 	{*
```

_ add+=currentTime*;_
_ }_
_ }*_