[c#] How to get the current date without the time?

I am able to get date and time using:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

How can I get the current date and time separately in the DateTime format itself?

I am not using the DateTime picker dialog box in ASP.NET (C#).

string now = Convert.ToString(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString());
Console.WriteLine(now);
Console.ReadLine();

You can use following code to get the date and time separately.

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string date = now.GetDateTimeFormats('d')[0];
string time = now.GetDateTimeFormats('t')[0];

You can also, check the MSDN for more information.

There is no built-in date-only type in .NET.

The convention is to use a DateTime with the time portion set to midnight.

The static DateTime.Today property will give you today's date.

See, here you can get only date by passing a format string. You can get a different date format as per your requirement as given below for current date:

DateTime.Now.ToString("M/d/yyyy");

Result : "9/1/2015"

DateTime.Now.ToString("M-d-yyyy");

Result : "9-1-2015"

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Result : "2015-09-01"

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");

Result : "2015-09-01 09:20:10"

For more details take a look at MSDN reference for Custom Date and Time Format Strings

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Use DateTime.Today property. It will return date component of DateTime.Now. It is equivalent of DateTime.Now.Date.

Current Time :

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

Current Date :

DateTime.Today.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy");

I think you need separately date parts like (day, Month, Year)

DateTime today = DateTime.Today;

Will not work for your case. You can get date separately so you don't need variable today to be as a DateTimeType, so lets just give today variable int Type because the day is only int. So today is 10 March 2020 then the result of

int today = DateTime.Today.Day;

int month = DateTime.Today.Month;

int year = DateTime.Today.Year;

MessageBox.Show(today.ToString()+ " - this is day. "+month.ToString()+ " - this is month. " + year.ToString() + " - this is year");

would be "10 - this is day. 3 - this is month. 2020 - this is year"

Use

txtdate.Text = DateTime.Today.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy");

for month

DateTime.Now.ToString("MM");

for day

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd");

for year

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy");

You can use DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() like so:

var test = $"<b>Date of this report:</b> {DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString()}";