hey all,

i'd like a string of today's date in the following format:
mmddyy

and here's how i did it:
String directoryName = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString() +
DateTime.Now.Day.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Year.ToString().Substring(2);

is there an easier way?

thanks,
rodchar

"rodchar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:408A18F1-7A4B-4A8A-B219-(E-Mail Removed)...

> hey all,
>
> i'd like a string of today's date in the following format:
> mmddyy
>
> and here's how i did it:
> String directoryName = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString() +
> DateTime.Now.Day.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Year.ToString().Substring(2);
>
> is there an easier way?

ToString("MMddyy")

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

thanks for the feedback,
rod.

"Jeff Johnson" wrote:

> "rodchar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:408A18F1-7A4B-4A8A-B219-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > hey all,
> >
> > i'd like a string of today's date in the following format:
> > mmddyy
> >
> > and here's how i did it:
> > String directoryName = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString() +
> > DateTime.Now.Day.ToString() + DateTime.Now.Year.ToString().Substring(2);
> >
> > is there an easier way?
>
> ToString("MMddyy")
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx
>
>
>

Note that MM differs from mm. MM = month, mm = minute. Someone where I
work hard coded time formats rather than using the system format (no idea
why), but to make things worse he encoded them all hh:ss - so we had what
looked like end times that were before start times :-)



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