Question

I have a date picker (DateTimePicker) in my application. Currently, when a user selects the desired date, the outputed result reads as follows:

Code:

private void btnEnter_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string date = startDatePicker.Value.ToString();
    dateStart.Text = date;
}

Output (what dateStart becomes)

07/16/2012 1:18 PM

However, I need the date to be formated like this:

2012/07/16

Also, I don’t need the time to show up. Is there a way to change the date format and stop the time from showing up?

Answer 1

use custom format

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datetimepicker.customformat.aspx