convert string to system.iformatprovider in date conversion

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I have an issue to convert the date into the format(dd-MM-yyyy) and (yyyyMMdd)

I have used the txtsodate.text.ToString("yyyyMMdd") but failed.

How can set the date format in the above format. Pls advice me

Maideen

Posted 22-Dec-14 16:37pm

Maideen Abdul Kader

Updated 10-Oct-18 0:58am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Dec-14 23:44pm

This is not how it works. You should not try to create a format provider from string. (Where did you get this weird idea?) This interface is implemented by, for example, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.
—SA

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George Jonsson · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-22T16:48:00

If you have a string with the date you can first convert it to the DateTime[^] type and then back to a string again in the format you prefer.

For example:

C#

string inputData = "12/23/2014";   // American style
DateTime tmpDate = DateTime.ParseExact(inputData, "MM/dd/yyyy", null);
string output1 = tmpDate.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy");
string output2 = tmpDate.ToString("yyyyMMdd");

Here is a good page with different date formats Custom Date and Time Format Strings[^]