Question

I am implementing a project using the OSA-CBM 3.3 standard. Within that standard, there includes a type called Osacbmtime. I am attempting to parse a DateTime value from type Osacbmtime. Casting doesn’t seem to get the job done. Is there a useful (or obvious) approach I can take to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Given this snippet from some Java code (virtual the only reference I could find):

DMPort d = new DMPort();
d.lastUpdate = new OsacbmTime();
d.lastUpdate.time = "2007-08-15T16:23:09";
d.lastUpdate.time_type = OsacbmTimeType.OSACBM_TIME_MIMOSA;

I suspect you want something like:

DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(time.Time, "s",
                                    CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                                    DateTimeStyles.AssumeLocal);

Where s is the format specifier for the sortable 8601 format.