Format DateTime.Now to yyyy-mm-dd

Question

I want to convert the DateTime.Now to the format of yyyy-mm-dd since that is the only format that i can use in my query that i want to include.
The default format of DateTime.Now looks like 5/1/2008 6:32:06 PM.
If i want to change the format of it to yyyyMMdd I could use this line of code:

var dateString1 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd"); 

But, when i try the same for this yyyy-mm-dd format like below:

var dateString2 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-mm-dd"); 

the result i get is wrong. For the following lines of code:

var dateString1 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd"); var dateString2 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-mm-dd");  Console.WriteLine("yyyyMMdd " + dateString1); Console.WriteLine("yyyy-mm-dd "+ dateString2); 

I get the following result:

which is wrong for the second case.
What am i missing?

Answer 1

According to msdn MM format specifier stands for month and mm - for minutes.

"mm" | The minute, from 00 through 59.

"MM" | The month, from 01 through 12.

So your code should look like the following:

    var dateString1 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd");     var dateString2 = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");      Console.WriteLine("yyyyMMdd " + dateString1);     Console.WriteLine("yyyy-MM-dd "+ dateString2); 

And you will get the desired result