DateTime Today ToString dd mm yyyy returns invalid DateTime Value

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I am trying to get todays date in GBR format but   DateTime Now ToString  dd mm yyyy      returns with the value of 08 00 2013  So 00 in the month group was returned instead of returning the month 04   Any ideas why this happened

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Use MM for months  mm is for minutes   DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy      You probably run this code at the begining an hour like  00 00  05 00  18 00  and mm gives minutes  00  to your datetime   From Custom Date and Time Format Strings      mm  --  The minute  from 00 through 59        MM  --  The month  from 01 through 12    Here is a DEMO   Which the month part of first line depends on which time do you run this code

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There are only minor error Use MM instead of mm  so it will be effective   write as below     DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyy

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In addition to what the other answers have said  note that the     character in  dd MM yyyy  is not a literal character  it represents the date separator of the current user s culture  Therefore  if the current culture uses yyyy-MM-dd dates  then when you call toString it will give you a date such as  31-12-2016   using dashes instead of slashes   To force it to use slashes  you need to escape that character   DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy       -- gt   19-12-2016  for a Japanese user DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy       -- gt   19 12 2016  for a UK user DateTime Now ToString  dd   MM   yyyy   -- gt   19 12 2016  independent of region

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use MM months  instead of mm minutes     DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy      check here for more format options

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Lower mm means minutes  so  DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy        or  DateTime Now ToString  d        or  DateTime Now ToShortDateString     works   Standard Date and Time Format Strings

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It should be MM for months  You are asking for minutes   DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy      See Custom Date and Time Format Strings on MSDN for details

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