<p>How do I get today's date in C# in mm/dd/yyyy format?</p>

<p>I need to set a string variable to today's date (preferably without the year), but there's got to be a better way than building it month-/-day one piece at a time.</p>

<p>BTW: I'm in the US so M/dd would be correct, e.g. September 11th is 9/11.</p>

<p><em>Note: an answer from kronoz came in that discussed internationalization, and I thought it was awesome enough to mention since I can't make it an 'accepted' answer as well.</em></p>

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32747/how-do-i-get-todays-date-in-c-in-8282008-format#32819" title="kronoz&#39;s answer">kronoz's answer</a></p>

```
```
DateTime.Now.ToString("M/d/yyyy");
```
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx