DateTime.ToString(“MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff”) resulted in something like “09/14/2013 07.20.31.371”

Question

I have a WP8 app, which will send the current time to a web service.

I get the datetime string by calling

DateTime.ToString(\"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.ff         


        

Answer 1

: has special meaning: it is The time separator. (Custom Date and Time Format Strings).

Use \ to escape it:

DateTime.ToString(@"MM/dd/yyyy HH\:mm\:ss.fff")

Or use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture:

DateTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

I would suggest going with the second one, because / has special meaning as well (it is The date separator.), so you can have problems with that too.