C# Datetime Month
This post explains various formats of getting Month part of the date.
Month is a read only property of DateTime object. It returns integer corresponding to month order.
e.g.
For January it returns 1, February it returns 2 and so on.
Code:
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
Response.Write( dt.Month );
Response.Write( dt.ToString("M") );
Response.Write(dt.ToString("MM"));
Response.Write(dt.ToString("MMM"));
}
Output:
8
August 25
08
Aug
Aug
Description: First we have created dt as a new instance of DateTime. Later we converted DateTime instance into various month formats.
| Code |
Description |
| dt.Month |
Returns integer value corresponding to month.
In above example it returned 8th which is august month of the
year. |
| dt.ToString("M") |
Date instance is converted in to string representation with specified format. |
| dt.ToString("MM") |
Date and Month in integer format |
| dt.ToString("MMM") |
3 character string of month |
First Month of Year:
Code:
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
int currentMonth = dt.Month;
dt = dt.AddMonths(-(currentMonth - 1));
Response.Write(dt.ToString("MMMM"));
}
Output:
January
Array of Month string:
Code
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
int currentMonth = dt.Month;
dt = dt.AddMonths(-(currentMonth - 1));
string[] arrMonth = new string[12];
for(int i=0; i<=11 ; i++)
{
arrMonth[i] = dt.ToString("MMMM");
dt = dt.AddMonths(1);
Response.Write( arrMonth[i] );
}
}