C# DateTime Format String

In the previous article C# Function to Get Current DateTime in ASP.Net 2.0, you learnt how to get current date and its string formatting using

DateTime.Now.ToString("xxxxxxx")

To customize the format of date or time you can pass appropriate format string to ToString function.

Different types of Time formats that are commonly used in ASP.Net 2.0 are:

13:39:21.0363750

1:39 PM

13:39 21 PM

01:39 21 PM

1339

C# Functions to format the server Time String

C# Time Formats

Example 1

Response.Write(DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay);

Output

13:39:21.0363750

Example 2

Response.Write(DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString());

Output

1:39 PM 

Example 3

Response.Write(DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm ss tt"));

Output

13:39 21 PM

Note: To format the time in 24H format you can use the capital HH to display the hours, mm to display the minutes, ss to display the seconds and tt for AM/PM.

Example 4

Response.Write(DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm ss tt"));

Output

01:39 21 PM

Note: To format the time into short string type, you can use the lower case hh to display the hours.

Example 5

Response.Write(DateTime.Now.ToString("HHmm"));

Output

1339

Note:  To display the time in hours format, just use HHmm without separators.

Also learn from the tutorial: C# Date Format using ToString function to convert the Date value to specified Date format.