Current Month in words and not int

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I'm getting the current month and year from the dateTime and passing it to a string. The reason for this is, in my directory there has to be a folder for the current year and month - this is done in order for video uploading quantity. This is what I currently have:

    string month = Convert.ToString(DateTime.Today.Month);
        string Year = Convert.ToString(DateTime.Today.Year);
        UploadStatusLabel.Text = Year + "\\" + month;
        //New Directory Name in string variable
        string NewDirectory = Server.MapPath("~\\uploads\\" + Year + "\\" + month);
        //Calling the function to create new directory
        CreateDirectoryIfNotExists(NewDirectory);

All this works, but the problem is, is that month displays at 5 which is correct, but I need it to display May. How do I do this?

The use of "month" and "Year" as variable names is going to give me hives. — dnord, May 15 '13 at 19:00
@ dnord - It was changed to dtYear and dtMonth after I added the code here.... — Kerieks, May 16 '13 at 07:20

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '13 at 11:48

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DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM");

or

DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM");

Depending if you want January or Jan

answered May 15 '13 at 11:48

Paulie Waulie

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '13 at 11:46

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Look at formatting date time into strings: http://www.csharp-examples.net/string-format-datetime/

This should be what you require for displaying the month 'May':

Datetime.Now.ToString("MMMM");

answered May 15 '13 at 11:46

Richard Pursehouse

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Surprised at the answer not getting upvotes, This is the first and correct answer so +1 – Habib May 15 '13 at 12:12

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '13 at 11:47

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try something like

string month = DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM");

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Hope it works.

answered May 15 '13 at 11:47

Rahul

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '13 at 11:47

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Does DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM") work for you?

answered May 15 '13 at 11:47

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Matan L · Answer 5 · 2013-05-15T18:20:25.270

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Just use the ToString() method over the DateTime object, For example :

Datetime.Now.ToString("yyyy"); // will give you 2013
Datetime.Now.ToString("MMMM"); //will give you 'May'

Here is a reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

edited May 15 '13 at 18:20

answered May 15 '13 at 11:47

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But it will return "Jan" in January , MMMM is the full month name – Laurent S. May 15 '13 at 11:49

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 15 '13 at 11:48

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string month= DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

answered May 15 '13 at 11:48

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Current Month in words and not int

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