Print Date in c# in a specified format

Question

I am using the .NET DateTime type and would like to print date in the following format

"2017-08-23T11:33:14.653191-05:00"

I am currently able to get the date with year month and day by using this.

DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")

The above code results in "2017-08-23", but I want the date in above format.

Answer 1

You can use a custom format string to achieve this by using DateTime Now with a format

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.ffffffK");

Please see here. Parts of the format string are:

• yyyy is the four digit year
• MM the month (numerical)
• dd the days of the month
• HH the hours (24 hours format)
• ss the seconds
• ffffff the millionths of a second
• K the time zone