How Can I get Today's date with UFTC stamp in c#?

Question

Is there an inbuild DateTime functionality that could give me a string format of today's date as 2020-12-22T13:36:45 Etc/UTC (+00)

I can think of these ways:

var date = DateTime.Now;
var result = date.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss") + " Etc/UTC (+00)";

Console.WriteLine(date.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss Etc/UTC (+00)"));            
//Gives '2020-12-23T10:59:59 EAc/UTC (+00)' - incorrect t replaced by A

Console.WriteLine(result);
//Gives '2020-12-23T10:59:59 Etc/UTC (+00)' Correct,

As you can see I can get the correct format, though I am not sure this is the best solution, as it looks very artificial.

Is there a better way to format the string?

No, I don't believe there is. See here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30864731/iana-olson-timezone-support-in-c-sharp — DiplomacyNotWar, Dec 23 '20 at 09:03
If the result is supposed to be in UTC, you should be using `DateTime.UtcNow`, not `DateTime.Now`. — Matt Johnson-Pint, Dec 28 '20 at 19:44

Mehdi Khademloo · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-23T09:15:24.840

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how about date.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss 'Etc/UTC (+00)'")

or if you need the real timezone, date.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss 'Etc/UTC ('zzz')'")

edited Dec 23 '20 at 09:15

answered Dec 23 '20 at 09:09

Mehdi Khademloo

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How Can I get Today's date with UFTC stamp in c#?

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