How do I get today's date in C# in mm/dd/yyyy format?
I need to set a string variable to today's date (preferably without the year), but there's got to be a better way than building it month-/-day one piece at a time.
BTW: I'm in the US so M/dd would be correct, e.g. September 11th is 9/11.
Note: an answer from kronoz came in that discussed internationalization, and I thought it was awesome enough to mention since I can't make it an 'accepted' answer as well.
kronoz's answer
DateTime.Now.ToString("M/d/yyyy");
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx
Not to be horribly pedantic, but if you are internationalising the code it might be more useful to have the facility to get the short date for a given culture, e.g.:-
using System.Globalization;
using System.Threading;
...
var currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
try {
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-us");
string shortDateString = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();
// Do something with shortDateString...
} finally {
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = currentCulture;
}
Though clearly the "m/dd/yyyy" approach is considerably neater!!
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