How to change DateTime field display precision in asp.net Core Razor Pages

Question

I'm working on my first project in asp.net core razor pages and trying to add a creation date time field to my Article model which is by default filled with current date time. I have defined it liked this:

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[DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
public DateTime CreationDate { get; set; } = DateTime.Now;

when I visit the Article creation page, it is shown like this:

2019/02/02 09:25:36.377 PM

I don't want the second and millisecond to be shown here, but couldn't find a way to remove them. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You problably want to either use DateTime.ToString(string) to show the date. For example CreationDate.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm") would become 2019/02/02 09:25

Or you can use the DisplayFormat Attribute . Example

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[DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
[DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm}")]
public DateTime CreationDate { get; set; } = DateTime.Now;

Answer 2

Why not just (put this in the getter)

var newdate = CreationDate.AddTicks(-CreationDate .Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerMinute);

Or try this out c# 6+

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[DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
public DateTime CreationDate { get; set; } = DateTime.Now.AddTicks(-DateTime.Now.Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerMinute);