DateTime Objects

Hey everyone, my problem is this: i have a DateTime object which i get from the database. It's format is American i.e. mm/dd/yy. I want to convert this to European format i.e. dd/mm/yy. Now i have tried Convert.ToDateTime. DateTime.Parse, DateTime.ParseExact and even created a new Datetime object using the properties of the American DateTime object. The only way i can format this is with the ToString() and use a string Format but this is not what i need as this is a string and i need the actual object formatted Is there an issue with American to european conversions. I'm using .Net version 1.1 Any ideas on how to convert this? Thanks.