Question

Try
    DateTimePicker1.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom
    ' Display the date as "2012-10-24 21:47:09".
    DateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"

    strQuery = "INSERT INTO TimeClockInfo(IdTimeClock, First_Name, Last_Name, LogTime, In_Out) VALUES('" & AddTimeEmplyIdBox.Text & "','" & AddTimeEmplyFNBox.Text & "','" & AddTimeEmplyLNBox.Text & "','" & DateTimePicker1.Value & "','in')"

    SQLCmd = New MySqlCommand(strQuery, dbCon)

    dbCon.Open()

    SQLCmd.ExecuteNonQuery()

    dbCon.Close()
    MsgBox("TimeClock Data Added Successfully!")
Catch ex As Exception
    MsgBox("Failure!", ex.Message)
End Try

this returns the original format of the date and time in the value property? what am i doing wrong here?

Answer 1

DateTimePicker1.Value is a DateTime – it doesn’t have an inherent format.

If you want to format it, use ToString with a Date and Time format string of your choice.

MSDN details the standard and custom format strings.

However, since you are interacting with SQL, you shouldn’t be concatenating SQL – your code is open to SQL Injection this way. You should use parameterized SQL, which doesn’t have this vulnerability and will deal with the DateTime correctly as well.