How do I change 1 date format to another in C# e.g 10/10/2014 to 2014-10-10 (Year-month-day)?

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How do I change 1 date format to another in C# e.g 10/10/2014 to 2014-10-10 (Year-month-day) ?

The user selects a date with a datepicker, then it appears in the textbox but the format is 10/10/2014 (day/month/year). But I'm needing this output to be converted to reflect this format 2014-10-10 (Year-month-day)

Within asp.net-mvc

Code:

@Html.Label("Start", "Start Date:")
@Html.TextBox("Start", string.Empty, new {@id = "Start", @class = "datepicker"})
@Html.Label("endd", "End Date:")
@Html.TextBox("endd", string.Empty, new {@id = "End", @class = "datepicker"})
<input type="submit" value="Apply" id ="DateSelected" />

please have a look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1328025/jquery-ui-datepicker-change-date-format — Christos, Oct 23 '14 at 10:49
This looks like `asp.net-mvc`. Have you ever tried to format your `DateTime` value? — Soner Gönül, Oct 23 '14 at 10:49

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 11:12

For c# conversion will be :

public static string convert(string dateValue){
        string pattern = "MM/dd/yyyy";
        DateTime parsedDate; 
        if (DateTime.TryParseExact(dateValue, pattern, null, 
                                   DateTimeStyles.None, out parsedDate)){
            return String.Format("{0:yyyy-MM-dd}",parsedDate);
        }
        return null;
    }

    //usage example
        string dateValue="10/10/2014";
        string converted=convert(dateValue);
        if(converted!=null){
            Console.WriteLine("Converted '{0}' to {1}.", 
                                  dateValue, converted); 
        }

DavidG · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-23T10:59:40.000

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From the jQuery UI datepicker documentation when you set up the date picker, specify the format:

$( ".selector" ).datepicker({ dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd" });

edited Oct 23 '14 at 10:59

answered Oct 23 '14 at 10:53

DavidG

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How do I change 1 date format to another in C# e.g 10/10/2014 to 2014-10-10 (Year-month-day)?

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