Printing current date and time C#

Question

That's an easy one, but there is an error that appears. I have to create a console application for printing current date and time.

Here is my code:

namespace DateTime
{
    class DateTime
    {
        public static void Main()

        {
            DateTime now = DateTime.now;
            Console.WriteLine(now);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
}
}

I'm using visual studio 2012.

Solution 1

There are a few issues here. First, your class is called DateTime, which is causing the compiler to confuse it with System.DateTime. Also make sure the System namespace is available with a using directive, or fully-qualifying the type. Thirdly, C# is case sensitive. It should be Now, not now. Try giving things different names:

using System;
namespace MyNamespace
{
    class MyClass
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
            Console.WriteLine(now);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Solution 2

If you getting this error:

'System.DateTime' does not contain a definition for 'now'

Try DateTime.Now with uppercase 'N' instead DateTime.now.

Solution 3

A typo: DateTime.now. Now should start with the capital letter N as follows: DateTime.Now.

Comments

[Soner Gönül]

It is .Now not .now with capital N. C# is case sensitive.

[Jon Skeet]

Always include the error message in the question - or the exception, if there's an exception.

[Jon Skeet]

You still need to fix DateTime.now to DateTime.Now.

[vcsjones]

Yeah, I was in the middle of that. Done.

[Bruce]

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