The Final Guide

We need to format date values in our application often. We can format date value as shown below.

    protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DateTime dt1 = System.DateTime.Now;
        Response.Write(String.Format("{0:dd-MMM-yyyy}", dt1) + "<br />");
        Response.Write(dt1.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy") + "<br />");
    }

The output for the above two methods will be shown as follows.
16-Jun-2009
16-Jun-2009
We can even format a date value retrieved from database in the above method.

    protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DataRow dr = dtable1.Rows[0];
        DateTime dt1 = DateTime.Parse(dr["Joining_Date"]);
        Response.Write(String.Format("{0:dd-MMM-yyyy}", dt1) + "<br />");
        Response.Write(dt1.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy") + "<br />");
    }

We can format the datetime value either module specific or page specific or application specific method using Globalization.

    protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DateTime dt1 = System.DateTime.Now;
        System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-IN");
        Response.Write(dt1.ToShortDateString());
        Response.Write("<br />" + dt1.ToLongDateString());
        Response.Write("<br />" + dt1.ToString());
    }

The output for the above 3 methods are as follows…
16-06-2009
16 June 2009
16-06-2009 15:24:42
We can apply a specific culture for globalization in module level as shown above, or in page level in page declaration or in web.config file as shown below in

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