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copied!<p>I would personally format it in two parts: the non-am/pm part, and the am/pm part with ToLower:</p> <pre><code>string formatted = item.PostedOn.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mm") + item.PostedOn.ToString("tt").ToLower(); </code></pre> <p>Another option (which I'll investigate in a sec) is to grab the current DateTimeFormatInfo, create a copy, and set the am/pm designators to the lower case version. Then use that format info for the normal formatting. You'd want to cache the DateTimeFormatInfo, obviously...</p> <p>EDIT: Despite my comment, I've written the caching bit anyway. It probably won't be <em>faster</em> than the code above (as it involves a lock and a dictionary lookup) but it does make the calling code simpler:</p> <pre><code>string formatted = item.PostedOn.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mmtt", GetLowerCaseInfo()); </code></pre> <p>Here's a complete program to demonstrate:</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Globalization; public class Test { static void Main() { Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mmtt", GetLowerCaseInfo()); } private static readonly Dictionary<DateTimeFormatInfo,DateTimeFormatInfo> cache = new Dictionary<DateTimeFormatInfo,DateTimeFormatInfo>(); private static object cacheLock = new object(); public static DateTimeFormatInfo GetLowerCaseInfo() { DateTimeFormatInfo current = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat; lock (cacheLock) { DateTimeFormatInfo ret; if (!cache.TryGetValue(current, out ret)) { ret = (DateTimeFormatInfo) current.Clone(); ret.AMDesignator = ret.AMDesignator.ToLower(); ret.PMDesignator = ret.PMDesignator.ToLower(); cache[current] = ret; } return ret; } } } </code></pre>

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