DateTime Problem

[Jake K]

string var = DateTime.Today.Month.ToString() + "-" +
DateTime.Today.Day.ToString() + "-" + DateTime.Today.Year.ToString() + "-" +
DateTime.Today.Hour.ToString() + "-" + DateTime.Today.Minute.ToString() +
"-" + DateTime.Today.Second.ToString();
MessageBox.Show(var);

returns 12-21-2006-0-0-0

Why would the hours, minute and second not appear correctly?

 

[Jake K]

Using DateTime.Now works. I overlooked Now.

 

[Stephany Young]

The hours, minute and second appear absolutely correctly because
DateTime.Today returns a DateTime object with just the date, i.e. the time
part all set to 0 (midnight).

Have a look at The DateTime.ToString(format) overloads to make life easier
for yourself.

MessageBox.Show(DateTime.Today.ToString("M-d-y-H-m-s")) and
MessageBox.Show(DateTime.Now.ToString("M-d-y-H-m-s"))

will display:

12-21-2006-0-0-0 and
12-21-2006-12-34-56

respectively if the time is 12:34:56 PM on 21/12/2006.

 

[Marc Gravell]

I realise that the problem is resolved, but can I offer some advice?
Either use the format specifiers, or cache the date first, otherwise
you could get anomolies if (for instance) the date ticks over midnight
between calls... and on newyear you could end up printing dates a year
in the future... as in:
[end of 2006]
var = (Dec) + (12)...
[<tick, fireworks, etc> now January]
...+(2007)+(0)+(0)+(0)

i.e.
DateTime when = DateTime.Now;
and work with "when"; the overloads on .ToString() are good too, but
already mentioned by another poster.

Marc

 

[Jake K]

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate the feedback.

 

[Bobbo]

Have a look at The DateTime.ToString(format) overloads to make life easier
for yourself.

Here's the reference page, to make life even easier...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo.aspx

 

[Stephany Young]

I find it much easier to press the F1 key.

Here's the reference page, to make life even easier...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo.aspx