Question

Does anyone know of an easy (built in) way to convert a string like ‘20081231T130000’ (ICalendar I think) to DateTime in C#? Or do I need to parse the string?

Answer 1

Try this:

DateTime when = DateTime.ParseExact('20081231T130000',     'yyyyMMddTHHmmss',CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); 

Aside: it is close to the format used in xml, but not quite close enough – otherwise XmlConvert wraps this:

DateTime when = XmlConvert.ToDateTime('2008-12-31T13:00:00');