Date Format

[shapper]

Hello,

I would like to display a date on the format yyyy/mm/dd:

(string)ViewData["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model.SlidePaper.Slide.StartDate.ToString("yyyy/mm/dd")

This is not working ... But as far as I remember was only to place the
format inside the ToString or not?

Thanks,
Miguel

 

[Peter Morris]

"Is not working"? I suspect you prefer better problem descriptions from
users of your software?

static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"));
Console.ReadLine();
}

Works fine here. Make sure you use MM and not mm (which is minutes).


Pete

 

[shapper]

"Is not working"?  I suspect you prefer better problem descriptions from
users of your software?

  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
   Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"));
   Console.ReadLine();
  }

Works fine here.  Make sure you use MM and not mm (which is minutes).

Pete

Sorry, you are right. I get the following error:

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

on:
(string)ViewData["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model.SlidePaper.Slide.StartDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

But on the same page I have:
DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

and it works fine.

Thanks,
Miguel

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Sorry, you are right. I get the following error:

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

on:
(string)ViewData["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model.SlidePaper.Slide.StartDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

But on the same page I have:
DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

and it works fine.

So what is the type of the StartDate property?

 

[shapper]

Sorry, you are right. I get the following error:

No overload for method 'ToString' takes '1' arguments

on:
(string)ViewData["StartDate"] ??
ViewData.Model.SlidePaper.Slide.StartDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

But on the same page I have:
DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

and it works fine.

So what is the type of the StartDate property?

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StartDate is of type DateTime ...

When I place the mouse over StartDate VS shows DateTime?
Slide.StartDate

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

StartDate is of type DateTime ...

When I place the mouse over StartDate VS shows DateTime?
Slide.StartDate

So it's not of type DateTime, it's of type DateTime? i.e.
Nullable<DateTime>. Change your code to:

ViewData.Model.SlidePaper.Slide.StartDate.Value.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

 

[shapper]

So it's not of type DateTime, it's of type DateTime? i.e.
Nullable<DateTime>. Change your code to:

ViewData.Model.SlidePaper.Slide.StartDate.Value.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

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Web site:http://www.pobox.com/~skeet 
Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
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Didn't know that.

Thanks,
Miguel

 

[Bjørn Brox]

shapper skrev:

Didn't know that.

Just remember to test on null first because using a nullable DateTime
struct is a common way to flag a undefined/unset value.