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I have '273' added as a day with the following line:

DateTime.newInstance(dStart.year(), dstart.month(), dstart.day()).format('DD-MM-YYYY');

so the output looks like '273-09-2019' - what gives?

I am trying to add a date to a SOQL string and a Date type returns '30-09-2019 00:00:00'. A few suggestions were to convert Date to DateTime and then apply to format. Is there a better way of doing this?

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It should be small dd aka dd-MM-YYYY

Date dStart = System.today();    

System.debug(DateTime.newInstance(dStart.year(), dstart.month(), dstart.day()).format('dd-MM-YYYY')); //13-11-2019

Format method follows SimpleDateFormat and according to it

Small d means date and Caps D means day of the year

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    As an addendum to this answer, Apex's date formatting method(s) accept format strings that adhere to Java's SimpleDateFormat. DD = day of the year (0 to 365 or 366), dd = day of the month (with leading 0).
    – Derek F
    Nov 13, 2019 at 17:06
  • Thanks @DerekF :)
    – Pranay Jaiswal
    Nov 13, 2019 at 17:07
  • Cheers fellas! I can't believe how much time I wasted on this.
    – wmin
    Nov 13, 2019 at 17:22

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