How do I convert a DateTime object to YYMMDD format?
Solution 1
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyMMdd")
You may also find the following two posts on MSDN useful as they contain a lot of info about DateTime formatting:
Standard Date and Time Format Strings
Custom Date and Time Format Strings
Solution 2
Another alternative that you can do this is by:
var formattedDate = string.Format("{0:yyMMdd}", DateTime.Now);
Hope this helps!
Solution 3
The reference for the format string is at MSDN: Custom DateTime Format Specifiers.
What you are looking for specifically is:
yy Represents the year as a two-digit number. If the year has more than two digits, only the two low-order digits appear in the result. If the year has fewer than two digits, the number is padded with leading zeroes to achieve two digits.
MM Represents the month as a number from 01 through 12. A single-digit month is formatted with a leading zero.
dd Represents the day of the month as a number from 01 through 31. A single-digit day is formatted with a leading zero.
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Max about 4 years
Um, probably a really simple question, but I just noticed that I have no idea on how to convert
DateTime.Now
to the format YYMMDD, so for example today (5. November 2009) would be "091105".I know there are overloads to
DateTime.Now.ToString()
where you can pass in a format string, but I have not found the right format e.g. for short year format (09 instead of 2009).