DateTime conversion

[Vishal]

Hi,

I am tryoing to convert the following string to a
date. Unfortuanly I get the error: "String was not
recognized as a valid DateTime."

This is my code:

CheckDate("2004-11-01T21:18Z")

private function CheckDate(ByVal strPostDate as string)

Dim dtDate As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime
(strPostDate)
end function

Can somebody help me?

 

[William F. Robertson, Jr.]

You should use the DateTime.ParseExact() since you know the format the date
will be coming in.

private void CheckDate( string date )
{
DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact( date, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'H:m'Z'",
null );
}

Here are is a good link for date time formatting strings.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ide/html/cpconcustomdatetimeformatstrings.asp

HTH,

bill