Datetime formatting in C#

DateTime represents date and time, and datatime value can be displayed a variety of ways.

C# DateTime formatting is handled with the help of format pacifiers:

D	Date in long form
d	Date in short form
F	Date and Time in long form
f	Datea and Time in short form
G	Date in short form, Time in Long form
g	Date in short form, Time in short form
M or m	Month and day
R or r	Date and Time in standard format(GMT)
S	Sortable date and time pattern
T	Time in long form
t	Time in short form
U	Universal long date/time pattern
u	Universal sortable date/time pattern
Y or y	Month and year

example:

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
MessageBox.Show("D format : " + dt.ToString("D") + "\n" +
                 "d format : " + dt.ToString("d") + "\n" +
                 "F format : " + dt.ToString("F") + "\n" +
                 "f format : " + dt.ToString("f") + "\n" +
                 "G format : " + dt.ToString("G") + "\n" +
                 "g format : " + dt.ToString("g") + "\n" +
                 "M format : " + dt.ToString("M") + "\n" +
                 "m format : " + dt.ToString("m") + "\n" +
                 "R format : " + dt.ToString("R"));

Output:

we can see messagebox with this information:

format : Saturday, June 18, 2011

d format : 06/18/2011

F format : Saturday, June 18, 2011 2:14:40 PM

f format : Saturday, June 18, 2011 2:14 PM

G format : 06/18/2011 2:14:40 PM

g format : 06/18/2011 2:14 PM

M format : June 18

m format : June 18

R format : Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:14:40 GMT

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