Datetime in SQL Server and C#

Question

I have this simple query

insert into my_table(date) values(getdate())

The result is 2017-01-05 12:41:37.273 .

I want when I do

select * 
from my_table

from my Windows Forms application to set the label1.text = 5 Thu 12:41

2017-01-05 12:41:37.273 ----> 5 Thu 12:41

How can I achieve that with C# code ?

Answer 1

Assuming that you read the data from SQL Server into your C# application I'm pretty sure, that a column of sql type DATETIME will be mapped to a C# type DateTime .

What you need is the textual format of this:

DateTime d = DateTime.Now;
MessageBox.Show(d.ToString("d ddd HH:mm")); 

Answer 2

You can parse string to DateTime and wrtie your own format.

  DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.Parse("2017-01-05 12:41:37");
  string formatedDateTime = myDateTime.ToString("dd-mm-yyyy");

Answer 3

From SQL you can you the below format to get your expected result:

SELECT CAST(DATEPART(D, GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR(2)) + ' ' + 
       LEFT(DATENAME(WEEKDAY, GETDATE()), 3) + ' ' + 
       LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), GETDATE(), 108), 5)

-- Output: 5 Thu 05:22