title: ASP .NET C# - Format a MySQL date field properly in a listview
body: <p>My MySQL database has a date field in the format:</p>
  
  <p><strong>yyyy-mm-dd</strong> </p>
  
  <p>but in ASP .NET this shows as:</p>
  
  <p><strong>9/14/2009 12:00:00 AM</strong> </p>
  
  <p>in both the ItemTemplate and EditItemTemplate.</p>
  
  <p>How do I format the field to display properly?</p>