C# Datetime format for portuguese

Question

My current date time format for Portuguese is d MMM yyyy resulted in 1 dez 2017 and I want it to display like this: 1 de dez de 2017

when I format the date like so d de MMM de yyyy I will get this 1 1e dez 1e 2017

is there a way to bypass the de to be transformed to date?

my question is there a way to format the date like this 1 de dez de 2017 ?

Answer 1

Just escape the \\d otherwise it will be recognized as day of the month .

new DateTime(2017, 12, 1).ToString(@"d \de MMM \de yyyy", new CultureInfo("PT-pt"));

Sample

Answer 2

new DateTime(2017, 1, 1).ToString("d 'de' MMM 'de' yyyy", new CultureInfo("PT-pt"));

Answer 3

DateTime s are formatted with custom format specifiers .

You can make sure characters aren't formatted as part of the date/time by escaping them.

There are two methods of escaping characters:

• The \\ character can be used to escape a single character
• The ' or " characters can be use to escape a string of characters.

The latter is probably easier to use as you can wrap any words in your format string in them and forget about it.

eg:

 DateTime.Now.ToString("d 'de' MMM 'de' yyyy");

Answer 4

The d in de has a special meaning, so you have to escape that letter with a backslash.

This concerns all letters that might conflict with an already predefined date or time format specifier.