why does DateTime.ToString(“dd/MM/yyyy”) give me dd-MM-yyyy?

Question

I want my datetime to be converted to a string that is in format \"dd/MM/yyyy\"

Whenever I convert it using DateTime.ToString(\"dd/MM/yyyy\"), I get

Answer 1

Slash is a date delimiter, so that will use the current culture date delimiter.

If you want to hard-code it to always use slash, you can do something like this:

DateTime.ToString("dd'/'MM'/'yyyy")