How to get complete month name from DateTime

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What is the proper way to get the complete name of month of a DateTime object  e g  January  December    I am currently using    DateTime Now ToString  MMMMMMMMMMMMM      I know it s not the correct way to do it

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You can use Culture to get month name for your country like   System Globalization CultureInfo culture   new System Globalization CultureInfo  ar-EG    string FormatDate   DateTime Now ToString  dddd   MMM dd yyyy  hh MM tt   culture

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Debug writeline Format Now   quot dd MMMM yyyy quot

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DateTime birthDate   new DateTime 1981  8  9   Console WriteLine   I was born on the  0   of  1    2     birthDate Day  birthDate ToString  MMMM    birthDate Year       The above code will say   I was born on the 9  of august  1981     dd  converts to the day  01 thru 31    ddd  converts to 3-letter name of day  e g  mon    dddd  converts to full name of day  e g  monday    MMM  converts to 3-letter name of month  e g  aug    MMMM  converts to full name of month  e g  august    yyyy  converts to year

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It should be just DateTime ToString   MMMM     You don t need all the extra Ms

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It s  DateTime Now ToString  MMMM      With 4 Ms

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Use the  MMMM  custom format specifier   DateTime Now ToString  MMMM

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If you receive  MMMM  as a response  probably you are getting the month and then converting it to a string of defined format   DateTime Now Month ToString  MMMM      will output  MMMM   DateTime Now ToString  MMMM      will output the month name

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You can do as mservidio suggested  or even better  keep track of your culture using this overload   DateTime Now ToString  MMMM   CultureInfo InvariantCulture

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If you want the current month you can use DateTime Now ToString  MMMM   to get the full month or DateTime Now ToString  MMM   to get an abbreviated month   If you have some other date that you want to get the month string for  after it is loaded into a DateTime object  you can use the same functions off of that object  dt ToString  MMMM   to get the full month or dt ToString  MMM   to get an abbreviated month   Reference  Custom Date and Time Format Strings  Alternatively  if you need culture specific month names  then you could try these  DateTimeFormatInfo GetAbbreviatedMonthName Method DateTimeFormatInfo GetMonthName Method

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