How to get current date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format in ASP.NET?

Question

How to get current date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format in ASP.NET ?

Guilty

How to get the current date for what? What are you using the date for will you be displaying it. Is it just for one field or multiple fields. It would be a good idea to elaborate a little more. – Blum

Answer 1

Which WebControl are you using? Did you try?

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Beaujolais

leave off the semicolon for VB.NET ;) – Startle

if anyone need some more references i suggest to read and follow the tips over here : dotnetperls.com/datetime-format-vbnet – Scutcheon

Answer 2

The ToString method on the DateTime struct can take a format parameter:

var dateAsString = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");
// dateAsString = "2011-02-17"

Documentation for standard and custom format strings is available on MSDN.

Cladophyll

Answer 3

<%= DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") %>

Fibula

Answer 4

try ToString method for your desirer format use

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); 

OR you can use it with your variable of DateTime type

dt.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

where dt is a DateTime variable

Mweru

If you post code, XML or data samples, please highlight those lines in the text editor and click on the "code samples" button ( { } ) on the editor toolbar to nicely format and syntax highlight it! – Unutterable

Answer 5

Might be worthwhile using the CultureInfo to apply DateTime formatting throughout the website. Insteado f running around formatting whever you have to.

CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.SetAllDateTimePatterns( ...

or

CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "yyyy-MM-dd"; 

Code should go somewhere in your Global.asax file

protected void Application_Start(){ ...

Blum

Answer 6

var formatedDate = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

To ensure the user's local settings don't affect it

Foreleg