How do I keep the 0's in a Date

Question

I am trying to figure out how it is that I can keep the 0's or add them when I grab a date.

What Im getting is this:

6/15/2010

What I'm tring to get is:

06/15/2010

I have added it so that it checks the length to and if its less than 6 (im stripping the "/") it pads the left side. That solves the issue when the month is a single digit, but what about when the date is a single digit.

My ultimate goal is to have a date such as:

1/1/2010

read out like:

01/01/2010

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Use a custom format : dd/MM/yyyy, or in your case MM/dd/yyyy. Note the capital M, the small m gets you the minutes.

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