Question

I am receiving a Flash datetime in the following format:
Sun Jul 17 20:43:02 GMT-0600 2011

The default DateTime.Parse method does not recognize it as a valid datetime. Is there a way to parse it to get a valid UTC DateTime?

Answer 1

Your exact format for this example would be the following

var d = "Sun Jul 17 20:43:02 GMT-0600 2011";
var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(d, "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT'zz'00' yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString());