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DateTime::GetDateTimeFormats Method (Char)

Updated: January 2010

Converts the value of this instance to all the string representations supported by the specified standard date and time format specifier.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
array<String^>^ GetDateTimeFormats(
	wchar_t format
)

Parameters

format
Type: System::Char

A standard date and time format string (see Remarks).

Return Value

Type: array<System::String>
A string array where each element is the representation of the value of this instance formatted with the format standard date and time format specifier.

ExceptionCondition
FormatException

format is not a valid standard date and time format specifier character.

The format parameter can be any of the standard date and time format specifiers. These include "d", "D", "f", "F", "g", "G", "M" (or "m"), "O" (or "o"), "R" (or "r"), "s", "t", "T", "u", "U", and "Y" (or "y"). For more information, see Standard Date and Time Format Strings.

Each element of the return value is formatted using information from the current culture. For more information about culture-specific formatting information for the current culture, see CultureInfo::CurrentCulture.

NoteNote:

   Because this method uses culture-sensitive data, your application should not assume that multiple calls to the method will return identical data. The data returned by this method can change if the current culture changes, the user overrides individual cultural settings, or an update occurs to the system's cultural data.

The following example demonstrates the GetDateTimeFormats(Char) method. It displays the string representation of a date using the long date format specifier ("D") for the current culture.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0

Date

History

Reason

January 2010

Noted possibility of data change between method invocations.

Content bug fix.

December 2008

Replaced the example.

Information enhancement.

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