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Asked: 2026-06-03T01:02:06+00:00

I understand my question is pretty incomplete .. I am basically writting date and

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I understand my question is pretty incomplete .. I am basically writting date and time to xml to record when the file was created .. The exact format i want is “04/04/12 13:30:40”

I tried to different ways to get what I want and the closest i found is using this .. 

           Dim Date_Time As Date = Date.Now

which will show like

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Pretty close rite ? but when I write it variable Date_Time to XML it becomes totally different .. such as .. 

         2012-05-02T09:24:48.7005197+01:00

Hope someone can help me out .. THanks ..

PS. I was using 

          Dim xmlDoc As New XDocument(
          New XElement("FILE",
          New XAttribute("FileDate", Date_Time))

to create xml.

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  1. Editorial Team

    try something like this when you write to the file:

    date_time.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")

    I think adding tt to the end will give you the AM/PM bit if you want that too.

    Just to add a bit more info, the following link gives you a example of all the different date formats … good for reference… Click me

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