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Chaitanya
Chaitanya

Reputation: 1708

On converting a string to a DateTime object

Am unable to convert a string which represents date and time ex: "Tue Mar 18 14:37:34 PDT 2014" to a DateTime object. From the format I can figure it out to be in the RFC 1123 format. What is the best way to parse date strings as above?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (2)

Josh Nester
Josh Nester

Reputation: 29

If you can make the format of the string like this (you are pretty close): Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:35:00 GMT

You can use DateTime.Parse(dateString);

Find more information here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/1k1skd40(v=vs.100).aspx

Upvotes: 0

Victor Hurdugaci
Victor Hurdugaci

Reputation: 28425

Timezone literals are not supported by DateTime.Parse/ParseExact. Here is a workaround:

string inputDate = "Tue Mar 18 14:37:34 PDT 2014";
inputDate = inputDate.Replace("PDT", "-7");
DateTime d = DateTime.ParseExact(inputDate, "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy", culture);
Console.WriteLine(d);

Upvotes: 1

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