C# date formatting is losing slash separators

Question

If I do this in C#:

Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString(\"ffffd M/dd/yy\"));

I would expect output like this:

Wed 6/15/11         


        

Answer 1

You could also use

Console.WriteLine(dateTime.ToString("ffffd M'/'dd'/'yy"));

That's a possible solution if you're not using the invariant culture as mentioned in other answers here.