Date and Time Formatting Characters - CSharp Language Basics

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Introduction

Specifier
 Description
 Default Format
 Example Output
d
 Short date
 mm/dd/yyyy
 5/6/2001
D
 Long date
 day, month dd, yyyy
 Sunday, May 06, 2001
f

 Full date/
short time
 day, month dd,
yyyy hh:mm AM/PM
 Sunday, May 06, 2001 12:30 PM

F

 Full date/
full time
day, month dd,
yyyy HH:mm:ss AM/PM
 Sunday, May 06, 2001 12:30:54 PM

g

 Short date/
short time
mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm

 6/5/2001 12:30 PM

G

 Short date/
long time
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss

 6/5/2001 12:30:54 PM

M or m
 Month day
 month dd
 May 06
R or r

 RFC1123

 ddd, dd Month yyyy
hh:mm:ss GMT
Sun, 06 May 2001 12:30:54 GMT

s
 Sortable
 yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
 2001-05-06T12:30:54
t
 Short time
 hh:mm AM/PM
 12:30 PM
T
 Long time
 hh:mm:ss AM/PM
 12:30:54 PM
u

 Sortable
(universal)
 yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

 2001-05-06 12:30:54Z

U

 Sortable
(universal)
 day, month dd, yyyy
hh:mm:ss AM/PM
Sunday, May 06, 2001 12:30:54 PM

Y or y
 Year/month
 month, yyyy
 May, 2001

Demo Code

using System;/*from  ww  w  .j  a  v  a  2s  .c om*/
class DtFormat
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      DateTime CurrTime = DateTime.Now;
      Console.WriteLine("d: {0:d}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("D: {0:D}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("f: {0:f}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("F: {0:F}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("g: {0:g}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("G: {0:G}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("m: {0:m}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("M: {0:M}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("r: {0:r}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("R: {0:R}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("s: {0:s}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("t: {0:t}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("T: {0:T}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("u: {0:u}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("U: {0:U}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("y: {0:y}", CurrTime );
      Console.WriteLine("Y: {0:Y}", CurrTime );
   }
}

Result


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