Remove hours:seconds:milliseconds in DateTime object

Question

I\'m trying to create a string from the DateTime object which yields the format mm:dd:yyyy.

Conventionally the DateTime object comes as

Answer 1

Something like this for date and time without seconds:

private DateTime _startTime;
public DateTime StartTime 
{ 
    get { return _startTime; } 
    set 
    { 
        _startTime = value.AddSeconds(-value.Second)
                          .AddMilliseconds(-value.Millisecond);   
    }
}