Question

I experiencing a strange behavior of C#. Its some thing like this..

var date = DateTime.Now.ToString('MM/dd/yyyy'); 

I expecting out to be

04/24/2009 

but in actuall its returning

04-24-2009 

and my OS culture is en-GB, I’m using .Net 3.5 and WPF

any solutions please… ???

Answer 1

According to the MSDN docs for custom date and time format strings, / is a placeholder:

Represents the date separator defined in the current DateTimeFormatInfo.DateSeparator property. This separator is used to differentiate years, months, and days.

If you want a definite slash, use ‘MM’/’dd’/’yyyy’:

DateTime.Now.ToString('MM'/'dd'/'yyyy')