SelectedDate format

[Shane Ham]

I have a raddatetimepicker control with the dateFormat and displayDateFormat set to 'MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm'.
However, when I retrieve the SelectedDate from the code behind, it is in a different format 'MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss'.

I do not want the seconds. How can I get around this problem?

[Shane Ham]

Just to clarify...

If I set the dateTime.SelectedDate = DateTime.Now() then
dateTime.SelectedDate.GetValueOrDefault(DateTime.MinValue)  returns something like 03/09/2009 10:57:28 even though the dateFormat is "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm".  I would at least expect the seconds component to be 00 when formatted this way.

Perhaps this is expected behavior because the actual value set DateTime.Now does have the seconds component.
I still need a workaround. Would overriding the SelectedDate property be the best approach?

[Daniel]

Hello Shane,

Please try the following approach:

string myDate = RadDatePicker1.SelectedDate.Value.ToString(RadDatePicker1.DateInput.DateFormat);

<telerik:RadDatePicker ID="RadDatePicker1" runat="server" SelectedDate="09/09/2009">
    <DateInput runat="server" DisplayDateFormat="MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm" DateFormat="MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm"
        SelectedDate="09/09/2009" />
</telerik:RadDatePicker>

Let me know whether this helps.

Best regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

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