Best way to get the current month number in C#

Question

I am using C# to get current month number:

string k=DateTime.Now.Month.ToString(); 

For January it will return 1, but I need to get 01. If December is the current month, I need to get 12. Which is the best way to get this in C#?

Answer 1

string sMonth = DateTime.Now.ToString("MM"); 

Answer 2

Lots of different ways of doing this.

For keeping the semantics, I would use the Month property of the DateTime and format using one of the custom numeric format strings:

DateTime.Now.Month.ToString("00");