Date Format

[shapper]

Hello,

I would like to display a date on the format yyyy/mm/dd:

(string)ViewDat a["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model. SlidePaper.Slid e.StartDate.ToS tring("yyyy/mm/dd")

This is not working ... But as far as I remember was only to place the
format inside the ToString or not?

Thanks,
Miguel

[Peter Morris]

Re: Date Format

"Is not working"? I suspect you prefer better problem descriptions from
users of your software? :-)

static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(DateTime.Now .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"));
Console.ReadLin e();
}

Works fine here. Make sure you use MM and not mm (which is minutes).


Pete

[shapper]

Re: Date Format

On Sep 18, 12:57 pm, "Peter Morris" <mrpmorri...@SP AMgmail.comwrot e:

"Is not working"?  I suspect you prefer better problem descriptions from
users of your software? :-)
>
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
   Console.WriteLi ne(DateTime.Now .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"));
   Console.ReadLin e();
  }
>
Works fine here.  Make sure you use MM and not mm (which is minutes).
>
Pete

Sorry, you are right. I get the following error:

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

on:
(string)ViewDat a["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model. SlidePaper.Slid e.StartDate.ToS tring("yyyy-MM-dd")

But on the same page I have:
DateTime.UtcNow .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

and it works fine.

Thanks,
Miguel

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: Date Format

shapper <mdmoura@gmail. comwrote:

<snip>

Sorry, you are right. I get the following error:
>
No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments
>
on:
(string)ViewDat a["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model. SlidePaper.Slid e.StartDate.ToS tring("yyyy-MM-dd")
>
But on the same page I have:
DateTime.UtcNow .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
>
and it works fine.

So what is the type of the StartDate property?

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[shapper]

Re: Date Format

On Sep 18, 2:32 pm, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <sk...@pobox.co mwrote:

shapper <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote:
>
<snip>
>

Sorry, you are right. I get the following error:

>

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

>

on:
(string)ViewDat a["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model. SlidePaper.Slid e.StartDate.ToS tring("yyyy-MM-dd")

>

But on the same page I have:
DateTime.UtcNow .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

>

and it works fine.

>
So what is the type of the StartDate property?
>
--
Jon Skeet - <sk...@pobox.co m>
Web site:http://www.pobox.com/~skeet 
Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
C# in Depth:http://csharpindepth.com

StartDate is of type DateTime ...

When I place the mouse over StartDate VS shows DateTime?
Slide.StartDate

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: Date Format

shapper <mdmoura@gmail. comwrote:

StartDate is of type DateTime ...
>
When I place the mouse over StartDate VS shows DateTime?
Slide.StartDate

So it's not of type DateTime, it's of type DateTime? i.e.
Nullable<DateTi me>. Change your code to:

ViewData.Model. SlidePaper.Slid e.StartDate.Val ue.ToString("yy yy-MM-dd")


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[shapper]

Re: Date Format

On Sep 18, 5:19 pm, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <sk...@pobox.co mwrote:

shapper <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote:

StartDate is of type DateTime ...

>

When I place the mouse over StartDate VS shows DateTime?
Slide.StartDate

>
So it's not of type DateTime, it's of type DateTime? i.e.
Nullable<DateTi me>. Change your code to:
>
ViewData.Model. SlidePaper.Slid e.StartDate.Val ue.ToString("yy yy-MM-dd")
>
--
Jon Skeet - <sk...@pobox.co m>
Web site:http://www.pobox.com/~skeet 
Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
C# in Depth:http://csharpindepth.com

Didn't know that.

Thanks,
Miguel

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Brox?=]

Re: Date Format

shapper skrev:

On Sep 18, 5:19 pm, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <sk...@pobox.co mwrote:

>shapper <mdmo...@gmail. comwrote:

>>StartDate is of type DateTime ...
>>When I place the mouse over StartDate VS shows DateTime?
>>Slide.StartDa te

>So it's not of type DateTime, it's of type DateTime? i.e.
>Nullable<DateT ime>. Change your code to:
>>
>ViewData.Model .SlidePaper.Sli de.StartDate.Va lue.ToString("y yyy-MM-dd")
>>
>--
>Jon Skeet - <sk...@pobox.co m>
>Web site:http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
>Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
>C# in Depth:http://csharpindepth.com

>
Didn't know that.
>

Just remember to test on null first because using a nullable DateTime
struct is a common way to flag a undefined/unset value.

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