Unable to convert string to date

[Abhishek Srivastava]

Hello All,

I wrote the following program.

using System;
using System.Globalization;

public class ShortDateTest
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string date = @"26/04/1974";
DateTimeFormatInfo dtInfo = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
dtInfo.ShortDatePattern = @"dd/mm/yyyy";
DateTime birthDay = Convert.ToDateTime(date, dtInfo);
Console.WriteLine(birthDay.ToString());
}
}

But it throws an exception saying

Unhandled Exception: System.FormatException: Could not determine the
order of ye
ar, month, and date from dd/mm/yyyy.
at System.DateTimeParse.GetYearMonthDayOrder(String datePattern,
DateTimeForm
atInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.GetDayOfNNY(DateTimeResult result,
DateTimeRawInfo ra
w, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.ProcessTerminaltState(Int32 dps,
DateTimeResult resul
t, DateTimeRawInfo raw, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi)
at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi,
DateTimeStyl

Why I am not able to parse this date? I have used this same methodology
successfully to parse dates of pattern dd-MMM-yy. So why doesn't it work
for dd/mm/yyyy?

thanks for your help in advance.

regards,
Abhishek.

 

[Brian W]

IIRC mm is minutes. Try a pattern of

@"dd/MM/yyyy"

HTH
Brian W

 

[Guest]

I think you should change the

dtInfo.ShortDatePattern = @"dd/mm/yyyy"; to

dtInfo.ShortDatePattern = @"dd/MM/yyyy";

the Month character must be capitalized.