How do I get today s date in C in mm dd yyyy format

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How do I get today s date in C  in mm dd yyyy format   I need to set a string variable to today s date  preferably without the year   but there s got to be a better way than building it month- -day one piece at a time   BTW  I m in the US so M dd would be correct  e g  September 11th is 9 11   Note  an answer from kronoz came in that discussed internationalization  and I thought it was awesome enough to mention since I can t make it an  accepted  answer as well   kronoz s answer

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string today   DateTime Today ToString  M d

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DateTime Now ToString  M d yyyy      http   msdn microsoft com en-us library 8kb3ddd4 aspx

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DateTime Now ToString  dd MM yyyy

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DateTime Now Date ToShortDateString     I think this is what you are looking for

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Or without the year   DateTime Now ToString  M dd

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Not to be horribly pedantic  but if you are internationalising the code it might be more useful to have the facility to get the short date for a given culture  e g  -  using System Globalization  using System Threading        var currentCulture   Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture  try     Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   CultureInfo CreateSpecificCulture  en-us      string shortDateString   DateTime Now ToShortDateString         Do something with shortDateString      finally     Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   currentCulture      Though clearly the  m dd yyyy  approach is considerably neater

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If you want it without the year   DateTime Now ToString  MM DD      DateTime ToString   has a lot of cool format strings   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa326721 aspx

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DateTime Now Date ToShortDateString     is culture specific    It is best to stick with   DateTime Now ToString  d MM yyyy

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