Nick Kewney

Just a post to outline a few extra ways of parsing dates in C#. These are useful for internationalised apps.

try

{

    //Tell the parser to expect a en-GB (culture) date

    DateTime myDate = DateTime.Parse("20/02/2010", new CultureInfo("en-GB"));
 
    //Tell the parser to expect a date with a specific format

    DateTime myDateExact = DateTime.ParseExact("20/02/2010", "dd/MM/yyyy", null);
    //Tell the parser to expect a date with specific format 
    //with exact hours, minutes and seconds

    DateTime dtParseExact = DateTime.ParseExact("20/02/2010 00:00:02", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", null);
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} = {1}", "myDate", myDate));

    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} = {1}", "myDateExact", myDateExact));

    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} = {1}", "dtParseExact", dtParseExact));

}

catch (FormatException ex)

{

    Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());

}