[dba-VB] VB.Net Date/time in specific format

Thanks for that Shamil.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Please make correction to your string formatting:
> 
> Dim dt as String = string.Format("{0:yyyyMMdd_HHmmss}", DateTime.Now)
> Console.WriteLine(dt)   
> 
> IOW, use uppercase 'HH' instead of lowercase 'hh' - the latter gives the
> hour value in 00 - 11 range, and you might get file names collisions: yes,
> very low probability to get such collisions but "Murphy Laws" are waiting
> us, developers, around every corner, you know, and we have to be very
> accurate, and a little bit "paranoid"...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Shamil