Format .NET DateTime “Day” with no leading zero

Question

For the following code, I would expect result to equal 2, because the MSDN states that \'d\' \"Represents the day of the month as a number from 1 through 31. A sing

Answer 1

To indicate that this is a custom format specifier (in contrast to a standard format specifier), it must be two characters long. This can be accomplished by adding a space (which will show up in the output), or by including a percent sign before the single letter, like this:

string result = myDate.ToString("%d");

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