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How to convert DateTime object to dd/mm/yyyy in C#?

I’m new to c# and was hoping someone could help me clean up some code.

I have the following method which converts a DateTime to a custom Event string e.g. 30th of Jan 2012 is converted to 201201 (ignores the day)

public ConvertToEventDate(DateTime date)
{   
    var year = date.Year.ToString();
    var month = date.Month.ToString();
    month = month.Length == 2 ? month : "0" + month;
    return year + month;
}

I was wondering if there is a better way of doing this conversion.

Answer 1

I’d do this;

public string ConvertToEventDate(DateTime date)
{   
    return date.ToString("yyyyMM");
}

you can also put this into an Extension method like this;

public static class ExtenstionMethods
{
    public static string ToEventDate(this DateTime date)
    {
        return date.ToString("yyyyMM");
    }
}

and then call it ike this;

DateTime date = new DateTime(2012, 30, 1);

    date.ToEventDate();

as opposed to this;

ConvertToEventDate(date);