Below code will perform it.
String OriginalDate = "08/30/1999";
DateTime temp = Convert.ToDateTime(OriginalDate.Text);
String ConvertDate = temp.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
As the alternative solution, you can set appropriate CurtureInfo to parse your date string to DateTime
Interesting thread at
http://forums.asp.net/thread/1557498.aspx[
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