Converting time to Military

Question

In an attempt to turn a date with a format of "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss PM" into military time, the following replacement of a row value does not seem to take. Even though I am sure I have done this before (with column values other than dates). Is there some reason that row["adate"] would not accept a value assigned to it in this case?

DateTime oos = DateTime.Parse(row["adate"].ToString());

row["adate"] =  oos.Month.ToString() 
              + "/" 
              + oos.Day.ToString() 
              + "/" 
              + oos.Year.ToString() 
              + " " 
              + oos.Hour.ToString() 
              + ":" 
              + oos.Minute.ToString();

Answer 1

Instead of formatting the string manually, you should use:

oos.ToString("M/d/yyyy HH:mm");

Also, what do you mean by "would not accept a value"? Are you getting an exception? If so, what is the error message?