Question

Either I just can’t seem to find the right way to word the problem or it’s a lot more complicated than I thought, but what is the easiest way to assign the current date to a variable and format it to a specific format? Basically, I want to do the VB.net equivalent of this VBA line:

formatted_date = Format(Date, "yyyy-m-d")

Thanks!

Answer 1

Dim formattedDate as String = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-M-d")

Note that capital M is for month, lowercase m would get you minutes.