The Now property returns a DateTime value that represents the current date and time on the local computer. Note that there is a difference between a DateTime value, which represents the number of ticks that have elapsed since midnight of January 1, 0001, and the string representation of that DateTime value, which expresses a date and time value in a culture-specific-specific format. For information on formatting date and time values, see the ToString method. The following example displays the short date and time string in a number of culture-specific formats. The Now property returns a DateTime value that represents the current date and time on the local computer. Note that there is a difference between a DateTime value, which represents the number of ticks that have elapsed since midnight of January 1, 0001, and the string representation of that DateTime value, which expresses a date and time value in a culture-specific-specific format. For information on formatting date and time values, see the ToString method. The following example displays the short date and time string in a number of culture-specific formats. The Now property returns a DateTime value that represents the current date and time on the local computer. Note that there is a difference between a DateTime value, which represents the number of ticks that have elapsed since midnight of January 1, 0001, and the string representation of that DateTime value, which expresses a date and time value in a culture-specific-specific format. For information on formatting date and time values, see the ToString method. The following example displays the short date and time string in a number of culture-specific formats.
