DateTime ToString(“dd/MM/yyyy”) returns dd.MM.yyyy

Question

I have also tried shielding the \'/\' symbol in the formatting string, but it didn\'t quite work. My final goal is to get the date with the \'/\' symbols as separators. I g

Answer 1

This works (note the InvariantCulture):

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

If a CultureInfo is not specified, the CurrentCulture will be used. If this is a culture that doesn't use slashes as separators in dates it is replaced by whatever the actual culture date separator is.