How to convert datetime to date string string only

Question

How do I exclude the time element from the code below.

    Beg_Date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")

Returns #05/01/2023 12:00:00 AM#

I want only the date...no time.

Answer 1

duplicated post

Answer 2

Hi

What do you mean by 'Returns #05/01/2023 12:00:00 AM#', returns that to what/where and how? The statement you show does nothing at all until you assign it or use it in some way.

Also, how is a value assigned to Beg_Date?

To assign the datetime to a string with the format you show, everything is exactly as you want.

		Dim Beg_Date As DateTime = Now

		Dim s As String = Beg_Date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")

		' s = 06/06/2023

Answer 3

To convert a datetime object to a date string in Python, you can use the 'strftime()' method.

This will output the current date in the format YYYY-MM-DD. You can customize the format string according to your desired date format. The %Y represents the four-digit year, %m represents the month, and %d represents the day. You can find more format codes in the Python documentation for strftime().

If you have a specific datetime object instead of the current datetime, replace current_datetime in the example with your datetime object.

from datetime import datetime

# Current datetime
current_datetime = datetime.now()

# Convert datetime to date string
date_string = current_datetime.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

print(date_string)