I have also tried shielding the ‘/’ symbol in the formatting string, but it didn’t quite work. My final goal is to get the date with the ‘/’ symbols as separators. I guess I can use DateTime.ToString(“dd/MM/yyyy”).Replace('.', '/'), but that feels a bit excessive.
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Method 1
The / character in date/time format strings stands for “whatever the date separator of the format provider is”. Since you do not supply a format provider Thread.CurrentCulture is used, and in your case the current culture uses . as the date separator.
If you want to use a literal slash, place it inside single quotes:
dateTime.ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy");
Alternatively, you could specify a format provider where the date separator is /:
dateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
All of the above is documented on MSDN.
See the difference in a live example.
Method 2
string s = dt.ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
Method 3
This is because of the way ToString works by default, in accordance with the current culture:
This method uses formatting information derived from the current
culture.
So, override that:
string date = dt.ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
Method 4
This works (note the InvariantCulture):
DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
If a CultureInfo is not specified, the CurrentCulture will be used. If this is a culture that doesn’t use slashes as separators in dates it is replaced by whatever the actual culture date separator is.
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