Finding the first day of the month

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i am calculating the first day of every month for that code as follows

C#

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
DateTime firstday = new DateTime(now.Year, now.Month, 1);
string day = firstday.Date.ToString();
Label1.Text = day;

Output as follows

7/1/2013 12:00:00 AM

I am getting the output correct, but i want the output as follows

01 Jul 2013

How can i write code using my above code?

Rgds,
Narasiman P.

Posted 3-Jul-13 3:36am

Member 8054539

Updated 3-Jul-13 3:40am

Leo Chapiro

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Leo Chapiro 3-Jul-13 9:44am

Take a look at the DateTime.ToString-Methode (String): http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/zdtaw1bw(v=vs.80).aspx

BiteForce 3-Jul-13 9:50am

I think it works best with a switch-statement:

create a "day-string", a "month-string" and a "year-string";
then you can define, how the different substrings will be printed out.

for example:

Date date = new Date();
string day = null;
string month = null;
string year = date.Year;

switch(date.Day) {
case 1: day = "01";
case 2: day = "02";
//...
}

switch(date.Month) {
case 1: month = "Jan";
case 2: month = "Feb";
//...
}

Label1.Text = day + " " + month + " " + year;

Ron Beyer 3-Jul-13 11:02am

I hope that's a joke...

BiteForce 3-Jul-13 14:42pm

Uhm, I know, that it can be done much easier, I just wanted to mention another way of solving this problem...
I must admit, I also wanted to make some kind of joke, because there are still so many explanations for solving it, so I just came up with this idea...

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Ron Beyer · Answer 1 · 2013-07-03T03:39:00

Solution 1

C#

label.Text = firstDay.ToString("dd MMM yyyy");

Custom DateTime Format Strings[^]

Posted 3-Jul-13 3:39am

Ron Beyer

Updated 3-Jul-13 3:41am

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