Question

Hi I have a program that uses DateTime.Now.ToString() to get the time and then plugs it into a coloum that is smalldatetime. This worked before but now I get this error.

“Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type datetime.
The statement has been terminated.”

What am I doing wrong?

This is my SQL statement

command.CommandText = @" INSERT INTO Mail1 (UserID, Subject, Feedback, Date_Sent_On)
                         VALUES (@UserID, @Subject, @Feedback, @Date_Sent_On)";

Answer 1

The @Date_Sent_On parameter should be of type DateTime instead of string and you should pass DateTime.Now as its value.

Using DateTime.Now.ToString() is very unreliable, because formatting the date with ToString() is culture dependent – it can produce different results depending on the regional settings of your computer and the culture settings in the application.