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c#castingdatetime-format
Zain Ali
Zain Ali

Reputation: 15973

Casting String to DateTime

I have a string in format

Jul 13 2011 1:07PM

I want to cast it as 

dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm tt

    e.g: 13/7/2011 11:49:00 AM //string=Jul 13 2011  1:07PM

I am using following code to cast it to date.

DateTime date = Convert.ToDateTime(Convert.ToDateTime(myDateString).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));

This works fine if my day in my string is less than 13

Jul 12 2011  1:07PM //this will cast to desire format fine!

    Jul 13 2011  1:07PM //gives error String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

I understand that it is taking day as month but I can not found a way to cast it to desire format.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2059

Answers (4)

Cyril Gandon
Cyril Gandon

Reputation: 17058

See DateTime.ParseExact :

DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(myDateString, "MMM dd YYYY H:mmtt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

See also Time Format Strings

Upvotes: 4

Ales Ruzicka
Ales Ruzicka

Reputation: 2790

I believe you're searching for this:

Date.ParseExact("Jul 13 2011 1:07PM", "MMM d yyyy h:mmtt", Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Upvotes: 1

Sjoerd
Sjoerd

Reputation: 75609

First, convert the string Jul 13 2011 1:07PM to a date:

var date = Convert.ToDateTime("Jul 13 2011 1:07PM");

Then, convert it to a string in the format you like:

var dateText = date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");

Upvotes: 1

V4Vendetta
V4Vendetta

Reputation: 38210

You should use DateTime.TryParse

DateTime dt ;
if (DateTime.TryParse("Jul 13 2011 1:07PM",out dt))
   MessageBox.Show("Converted to Date object");

Post that you use the ToString() method to get the desired output

dt.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm")

Upvotes: 1

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