DateTime function

[maflatoun]

Hi all,

I'm using XML-RPC to grab some information from a third party service
provider and they're returning the following date/time format.

12 Jun 2007 08:00 EST5EDT

How can I convert that to a DateTime without too much coding? I did
some googling and couldn't find anything.

Thanks
M.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

M.,

You are going to have to drop the timezone information, as it doesn't
seem to conform to anything I have seen (or can find through google).

Once you do that, you can pass the string "12 Jun 2007 08:00" to the
static Parse method on the DateTime structure and it will parse it just
fine.

You would then have to do any work with the timezone yourself.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

M.,

You are going to have to drop the timezone information, as it doesn't
seem to conform to anything I have seen (or can find through google).

It's an older format by .NET standards. See
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/90s5c885(VS.80).aspx for an
example of how that format might be used with the CRT _tzset function.

I believe it should be familiar to java developers as well. CF
http://developer.classpath.org/doc/java/util/TimeZone-source.html.

I can't find that there is any support anywhere in the framework for
that timezone format though.

Once you do that, you can pass the string "12 Jun 2007 08:00" to the
static Parse method on the DateTime structure and it will parse it just
fine.

You would then have to do any work with the timezone yourself.

Unfortunately, true.