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Has AlTaiar
Has AlTaiar

Reputation: 4152

DateFormat parsing on MonoTouch

I have an sql query that saves a list of Dates (public holidays) to the database. This works fine on Windows and Android, but it fails on MonoTouch. It fails in the line below.

DateTime.Parse("01/01/2013").Date

It seems that MonoTouch is not able to parse this date. I know how to fix it by creating the DateTime object directly, but I just want to know if there is something that I am missing or is it a bug in MonoTouch? I fixed it by instantiating the DateTime object directly like this:

new DateTime(2013,01,01)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 99

Answers (1)

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 89102

This is happening because you have your culture set to something that does not recognize "01/01/2013" as a default date format. Your code works for me, but I am using "en-us" culture where MM/DD/YYYY is the standard format.

You can use Date.ParseExact() and specify a date format to override whatever the default for your culture is.

Upvotes: 3

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