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noaRAVE
noaRAVE

Reputation: 432

DateTime.Parse doesn't use patterns in current CultureInfo(Silverlight)?

I've got following problem. I set CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture and use following patterns in them:

ShortDatePattern is dd-MM-yyyy

LongTimePattern is HH.mm.ss.

When I convert dates to string I get 15-01-2008 00.00.00. But when i call DateTime.Parse("15-01-2008 00.00.00") it throws a FormatException. If i set ShortDatePattern to dd-MM-yyyy HH.mm.ss exception is still thrown. Is there any way to force DateTime.Parse to use pattern for time by setting CurrentCulture accordingly.

I know that using Parse overloads or ParseExact might help, but the whole point was to use formatting without refactoring loads of code that is already written and uses DateTime.Parse and ToString all over the place

Additional info: A also tried putting - and . in ' - it was no use. CurrentCulture is based on Swedish.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 680

Answers (1)

MethodMan
MethodMan

Reputation: 18843

if you want to format a DateTIme using String.Format() Method you could do something like this below. String.Format DateTime C#

 var dt = "15-01-2008 00.00.00";
 var dateFrmt = String.Format("{0:dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss}", dt);

Output = "15-01-2008 00.00.00"

if you want to strip the HH:mm:ss out of the DateTime variable for short date you could do the following here is an example will yield ShortDate

 DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
 var dateFrmt = String.Format("{0:M/d/yyyy}", dt);

Output = "1/9/2013"

DateTime.ParseExact Method if you choose to go that route

Upvotes: 1

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