Question

This is small code. But I couldn’t find whats wrong with it. In my application I want to get the current month in long month format(ex:January). I used the following two lines of code.

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string month = now.Month.ToString("MMMM",CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

but its return “MMMM” for the values of month. Can anybody tell me whats wrong in this code.

Answer 1

now.Month is the int representation the month e.g. 1 for January, that’s why the .ToString("MMMM") works “strange”.

What you need is to call the .ToString() directly on the DateTime object:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string month = now.ToString("MMMM",CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);