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

Pass CultureInfo.InvariantCulture as the second parameter of DateTime, it will return the string as what you want, even a very special format:

DateTime.Now.ToString("dd|MM|yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

will return: 28|02|2014