How to String.Format the day of the month in c#?

Question

DateTime's formatting has some overlap between it'a standard date and time formatting strings and some of it's custom format specifier by them selves. As a result, when I evalate this expression:

string.Format(">{0:d}< >{0: d}<", DateTime.Now)

and get this result:

>8/3/2009< > 3<

My question is: How do I get String.Format to output just the day of the month (using the d format) without any surrounding spaces?

Answer 1

use "{0:%d}": reference

Answer 2

I keep this page in my favorites...

http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/string-formatting-in-csharp/

Saves me all the time.