Question

Even though it seems like this question has been asked a bunch of times, I can’t seem to find an answer that is specific to my question:

I have a variable that is read from an XML file by a C# XML parser. It is a string, and is in the format "yyyy-MM-dd". I would like to read this variable into our database using SQL, but it needs to be in the proper datetime format in order for me to do this. Unfortunately, I can’t find any datetime formats for "yyyy-MM-dd". Am I missing something?

I would prefer to be able to convert the variable to datetime before I have to open my SQL connection, if possible.

Answer 1

I would prefer to be able to convert the variable to datetime before I
have to open my SQL connection, if possible.

DateTime result = DateTime.ParseExact("2012-04-05", "yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);