DateTime.Today.ToString("dd/mm/yyyy") returns invalid DateTime Value

Question

I am trying to get todays date in GBR format but,

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/mm/yyyy"); 

returns with the value of 08/00/2013

So 00 in the month group was returned instead of returning the month 04.

Any ideas why this happened?

Answer 1

Lower mm means minutes, so

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");   

or

DateTime.Now.ToString("d");   

or

DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() 

works.

Standard Date and Time Format Strings

Answer 2

use MM(months) instead of mm(minutes) :

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"); 

check here for more format options.