How can I get a date in 'yyyy-mm-dd' format (2013-10-25) in a datetime object using C#?

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How can I get a date in 'yyyy-mm-dd' format (2013-10-25) in a DateTime object using C#?

I am writing a API client Wrapper for C# where I have to implement an interface which accepts the date as an DateTime object in 'yyyy-mm-dd' format.

What I have tried:

I have looked for lot of solutions but couldn't find one. It can be achieved by converting the DateTime to string but I need it as DateTime object only.

With Parse and ParseExact it gives output which include time 00:00:00 also, but the requirement is only to ger 'yyyy-mm-dd' format as DateTime object. Can someone please help??

Thanks in Advance

Posted 26-Dec-18 20:06pm

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Updated 26-Dec-18 20:11pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-12-26T20:11:00

You can't: DateTime values don't have a format, they are stored as a number of ticks since a specific moment in time. They only acquire a format of any kind when they are converted to strings for presentation to the user in some way - and then the format would normally depend on the users own preferences, not on yours!

You can format a DateTime to year-month-day very simply when you need to show it, but you can't "associate" any format with a DateTime value.

C#

string formatted = myDateTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Formatting a DateTime for display - format string description[^]