Question

I am currently looping through a csv file which has numerous dates on various lines, I’ve managed to split and extract what i want however i have a DateTime format issue. Here is my line of code:

current = DateTime.ParseExact(line[0], "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff", null);

The actual string which is split and read from the csv is:

"20/12/2012 13:08:18.980"

I am calculating the difference between the two DateTimes (in milliseconds). When I’m debugging and looking at the locals this is what appears for the DateTime “current”:

 current    {20/12/2012 13:08:18}   System.DateTime

as you can see it doesn’t give me milliseconds hence my TimeSpan difference calculation gets thwarted.
Please help.

Answer 1

Milliseconds are there. You can verify it using the following code:

 Console.Out.WriteLine("current = {0}", current.Millisecond);

When you are looking at variable from debugger, it uses .ToString() that just does not show milliseconds.