Date Time string formatting in ASP.NET

ASP.NET | Nauman | December 24, 2009 at 4:15 am

With the following code you can format a DateTime within a Databind.

<%# DateTime.Parse(Eval("DateModified").ToString()).ToString("MM-dd-yyyy")%>

Some more format specifiers that can change format of datetime objects the way it is required.

Format specifier	Name
d	Short date pattern
D	Long date pattern
t	Short time pattern
T	Long time pattern
f	Full date/time pattern ( short time )
F	Full date/time pattern ( long time )
g	General date/time pattern ( short time )
G	General date/time pattern ( long time )
M or m	Month day pattern
R or r	RFC1123 pattern
s	Sortable date/time pattern; conforms to ISO 8601
u	Universal sortable date/time pattern
U	Universal sortable date/time pattern
Y or y	Year month pattern