DateTime.ParseExact problem with parsing "8/09/05 9:27a"

[ramon.smits]

I'm trying to get the following date/time string formatted. But I don't
succeed. I get an exception saying the date/time string is invalid.

string input = "8/09/05 9:27a";
string format = "M/dd/yy h:mmt";

DateTime.ParseExact(input, format, null);

What am I doing wrong here? The following parse works ok.

string input = "9-08-05 9:27";
string format = "d-MM-yy H:mm";

 

[Guest]

The follow *should* work for you but I'm not sure how it handles
globalization as I'm doing this from memory.

===============
using System.Globalization;
....
....
DateTimeFormatInfo formatInfo = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
formatInfo.AMDesignator = "am";

string input = "8/09/05 9:27a";
string format = "M/dd/yy h:mmt";
DateTime.ParseExact(input, format, formatInfo)
===============

Hope this helps.

Brian Delahunty
Ireland

http://briandela.com/blog

 

[Wessel Troost]

string input = "8/09/05 9:27a";

string format = "M/dd/yy h:mmt";
DateTime.ParseExact(input, format, null);

The "t" format specifier expects a capital A. The following input parses
fine:

string input = "8/09/05 9:27A";

Gretings,
Wessel

 

[Ramon Smits aka Exyll]

Thanks that did the trick!

 

[Ramon Smits aka Exyll]

Capitilizing didn't help. I needed to add a DateTimeFormatInfo where I
specified the AM/PMDesignator. The anwser of Brian Delahunty works.

 

[Guest]

No Problem. Glad I could help.