Displaying required date format in c#

Question

I need to display today's date in the format November 22,2017 in C#. How can I do this? Any suggestions. I know this way .ToString("mm/dd/yyyy") . But this does not suit the current scenario. Thanks

Answer 1

This should work:

DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM dd,yyyy")

As Soner Gönül has mentioned, the month name is culture dependent. So it's better to specify the culture.

Invariant:

DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM dd,yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

or for german:

DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM dd,yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de-DE"))

Answer 2

DateTime does not store display format.
Only string representations of DateTime have display format - you need to use .ToString("MMMM dd,yyyy").

However, note that month names will be effected by the CultureInfo you are working with, so if you want the month name to be in a specific language, regardless of your current culture, you should use .ToString("MMMM dd,yyyy", new CultureInfo("en-US")) (or any other language you want - "it-IT", "fr-FR" etc')

Answer 3

For short month names use:

string monthName = new DateTime(2010, 8, 1)
    .ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

For long/full month names for Spanish ("es") culture

string fullMonthName = new DateTime(2015, i, 1).ToString("MMMM", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es"));