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Custom Date & Time Format Strings

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Overview

The following explains how to work with date and time format. A date and time format string provides properties and methods to format dates in different datetime formats.

The following table describes various date time formats and their results. Here we see all the patterns of the DateTime Class.

FormatResult
DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")05/29/2015
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy")Friday, 29 May 2015
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy")Friday, 29 May 2015 05:50
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy")Friday, 29 May 2015 05:50 AM
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy")Friday, 29 May 2015 5:50
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy")Friday, 29 May 2015 5:50 AM
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss")Friday, 29 May 2015 05:50:06
DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm")05/29/2015 05:50


DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt")05/29/2015 05:50 AM
DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy H:mm")05/29/2015 5:50
DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy h:mm tt")05/29/2015 5:50 AM
DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss")05/29/2015 05:50:06
DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM dd")May 29
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss.fffffffK")2015-05-16T05:50:06.7199222-04:00
DateTime.Now.ToString("ddd, dd MMM yyy HH’:’mm’:’ss ‘GMT’")Fri, 16 May 2015 05:50:06 GMT
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy’-‘MM’-‘dd’T’HH’:’mm’:’ss")2015-05-16T05:50:06
DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm")05:50
DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm tt")05:50 AM
DateTime.Now.ToString("H:mm")5:50
DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm tt")5:50 AM
DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss")05:50:06
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy MMMM")2015 May