.net - How to convert a Date to a formatted string in VB.net?

Question

There seems to be a million questions here on converting a string to a Date, but not vice-versa. When I convert a Date object to a string using mydate.toString I get a string in the format 16/01/2013 13:00:00.

But what I really want is 2013-01-16 13:00:00. I can't see any functions on the Date object that do this for me, do I need to use a regex or something instead?

Answer 1

You can use the ToString overload. Have a look at this page for more info

So just Use myDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")

or something equivalent