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Arry
Arry

Reputation: 1690

DateTime parse C#

How do I parse this date to DateTime in C#?

2014-09-26t1505

I tried the following way:

 DateTime pickupDate = DateTime.ParseExact("2014-09-26t1505", "t",
                  CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-us"));

But looks like this is wrong as I am getting following error:

String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 307

Answers (2)

Rob Sedgwick
Rob Sedgwick

Reputation: 4514

DateTime pickupDate = ParseExact("2014-09-26t1505", "yyyy-MM-ddtHHmm", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Upvotes: -1

eddie_cat
eddie_cat

Reputation: 2583

You should do like this.

  string dateString = "2014-09-26t1505";
  string format = "yyyy-MM-dd't'HHmm";
  CultureInfo provider = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
  try {
     DateTime result = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, format, provider);
     Console.WriteLine("{0} converts to {1}.", dateString, result.ToString());
  }
  catch (FormatException) {
     Console.WriteLine("{0} is not in the correct format.", dateString);
  }

To use ParseExact you have to actually specify the format you are using. Not sure why you just put "t". See MSDN for more info and code examples.

Upvotes: 4

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