Split date from datetime in sharepoint

Question

hi,
i have a column with datetime type. here i set date only option . my requirment is when using object model to retrive item from this date column it returns me datetime .
i want to split date from datetime
2/3/2011 4:5:34     i want only date 2/3/2011  can any one help

Dinesh Kumar · Answer

datetime dt; dt.selecteddate.toshortdatestring();

Vulpes · Answer

You can extract the date using code as follows:
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse("2/3/2011 4:5:34");       DateTime dt2 = dt.Date; // drops the time component       string dateString = dt2.ToString("M/d/yyy"); // drops the 00:00:00 you get by default, puts month before day