How do I change the format of the date?

[uio (uipath test)]

I want to display the current date.

“todaysdate” variable is in datetime variable type. The expression I have used to get the current date is “now()”. Used “ToShortDateString” to get only the date.

I’m getting the date in “MM.dd.yyyy” format. How do I get in “dd.MM.yyyy” format ?

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

HI @uio

How about this expression

DateTime.ParseExact(StringInput.ToString,"MM.dd.yyyy",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString("dd.MM.yyyy")

Regards
Gokul

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Hi @uio

Try with this

Now.ToString("dd.MM.yyyy")

[Yoichi]

Hi,

FYI, another approach:

We can use ModifyDate activity to output formatted date time string, as the following.

Regards,

[sumitha_karthik]

Hai…

Try this

[uio (uipath test)]

Hi,

It worked. How do I achieve this by using just an expression ?

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

@Gokul001

Try with this

Now.ToString("dd.MM.yyyy")

Hey @uio

You can try with the above expression

[uio (uipath test)]

I want to assign this expression to a variable and it’s type is System.Datetime.

[uio (uipath test)]

@sumitha_karthik @Gokul001

[Yoichi]

Hi,

DateTime variable cannot have format information.
Probably your workflow will be as the following.

Regards,

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Hi @uio

Dateval = New DateTime(now.Year,now.Month,now.day)

Dateval | Variable type -> System.DateTime

CDate(Dateval ).ToString("dd.MM.yyyy")

Regards
Gokul

[uio (uipath test)]

Thanks a lot. It worked.