Convert date column to string in datatable

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Im having datatable with multiple date columns. While exporting to excel im getting error that dateformat is wrong. I need to convert those data column to string in datatable. can anyone suggest pls.

What I have tried:

DataTable dt = dv.ToTable();
           foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
           {

           }

Posted 2-Jun-18 19:12pm

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Updated 4-Jun-18 3:05am

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Richard MacCutchan 3-Jun-18 3:41am

Excel use its own format for storing Dates and Times, which Google will find for you.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2018-06-04T03:06:00

As to me - your problem is not related with date column, but with the method you use to export data to MS Excel file. Because you didn't show us your code and sample data you're trying to export to Excel, we aren't able to help you.
Seems you're storing dates as string, that's why you're facing with wrong format of date.

sajeetharan · Answer 2 · 2018-06-02T19:59:00

Solution 1

You can try this, assuming your column name is Date

C#

foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows)
{
    DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(row["Date"].ToString());
    row["Date"] = dt.ToShortDateString();
}

Posted 2-Jun-18 19:59pm

sajeetharan

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Richard MacCutchan 3-Jun-18 3:40am

Why are you converting a DateTime to a string just so you can parse it back to a DateTime in order to convert it back to a string?

sajeetharan 3-Jun-18 6:50am

what do you mean?