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Reputation: 8237

Parsing Datetime

trying to parse this as datetime :

2011.03.13-21:15:04+511.0597

using 

Console.WriteLine(DateTime.ParseExact("2011.03.13-21:15:04+511.0597", 
                                      "yyyy.MM.dd-hh:mm:ss+ttt.tttt",
                  CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US")).ToString());

but it says unrecognized string.

any idea what im doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Dan Puzey
Dan Puzey

Reputation: 34200

Not sure exactly, but if I trim off everything after the seconds it parses fine. The "tt" part of a custom format is for AM/PM marker, which is one likely target... I guess you mean fff which is the fractional part of the seconds...

Another one is that you have lower-case "hh" which is for 12-hour clock only - your string has 21 as the hour portion, which would require upper-case HH in your format...

You also can't split two groups of digits with any character, as you have with ttt.tttt. The closest working code I can get to your sample is this:

DateTime.ParseExact("2011.03.13-21:15:04+511", "yyyy.MM.dd-HH:mm:ss+fff", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"))

Upvotes: 3

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