C# Format Date assigned to a string

This should suffice:

using System;

namespace EE_Q28791680
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			DateTime current = new DateTime(2015, 10, 30);
			Console.WriteLine("The new string representation for {0:MM/dd/yyyy} is {0:yyyyMMdd}", current);
			Console.ReadLine();
		}
	}
}

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Which produces the following output -You can read more about Custom Date/Time Formats from here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4(v=vs.110).aspx

-saige-

*No Points*

I like the presentation of formatters as laid out on http://blog.stevex.net/string-formatting-in-csharp/

You'll need to convert your string to a DateTime object, and then format that:

String originalDate = "10/30/2015 12:00:00 am";
String format = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt";
DateTime newDate = DateTime.ParseExact(originalDate, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Console.WriteLine(newDate.ToString("yyyyMMdd"));

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Was the solution that resolved my problem.