C # date and time format that includes date / month / year, not day

Question

I want to use a standard date format that displays the date, month and year in the standard regional settings of the PC. However, I could only find "D", which lists the day along with "Date-month-year." Is there a way to remove the day from it or in some other way to get the desired result?

DateTime date1 = new DateTime(2008, 4, 10); Console.WriteLine(date1.ToString("D", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"))); // Displays Thursday, April 10, 2008 

Note. I do not want to use a custom format (d MMMM yyyy), since I want to keep the regional order settings.

Answer 1

If you use one of the standard formats, then everything that is displayed will depend on the culture - so even if you can find something that does not display the day of the week in en-US, it may still display it in other cultures.

I suppose you could find the DateTimeFormatInfo for the culture, find its LongDatePattern and then remove any occurrence of one "d" from this format string. That would be pretty unpleasant though.

Answer 2

You can use this for your case:

 DateTimeFormatInfo myDTFI = new CultureInfo("en-US", false).DateTimeFormat; string str = (new DateTime(2008, 4, 10)).ToString(myDTFI.LongDatePattern.Replace("dddd", "")); 

Answer 3

try the following:

 date1.ToString("d", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US")) 

He will return you what you need!

Answer 4

You must use "d" instead of "D" to get the desired result.

Answer 5

Many cultures have several long date templates, and you can choose the first one that does not have a daily week template:

  static void Main(string[] args) { foreach (var cultureInfo in System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultures(System.Globalization.CultureTypes.AllCultures)) { string longDateWithoutDayOfWeek = null; foreach (var pattern in cultureInfo.DateTimeFormat.GetAllDateTimePatterns('D')) { if (!pattern.Contains("ddd")) { longDateWithoutDayOfWeek = pattern; break; } } bool isFallbackRequired = string.IsNullOrEmpty(longDateWithoutDayOfWeek); if (isFallbackRequired) { longDateWithoutDayOfWeek = cultureInfo.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern; } System.Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1} {2}", cultureInfo.Name, longDateWithoutDayOfWeek, (isFallbackRequired) ? " (short)" : string.Empty); } } 

Alternatively, you can use Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter with the template "day month year" .