I have also tried shielding the '/' symbol in the formatting string, but it didn't quite work. My final goal is to get the date with the '/' symbols as separators. I guess I can use DateTime.ToString(“dd/MM/yyyy”).Replace('.', '/')
, but that feels a bit excessive.
The /
character in date/time format strings stands for "whatever the date separator of the format provider is". Since you do not supply a format provider Thread.CurrentCulture
is used, and in your case the current culture uses .
as the date separator.
If you want to use a literal slash, place it inside single quotes:
dateTime.ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy");
Alternatively, you could specify a format provider where the date separator is /
:
dateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
All of the above is documented on MSDN.
See the difference in a live example.
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