I am using an API that outputs dates in this format 20120314T130000 .
The date value is 13:00 14 March 2012. How can I parse a Date in this format to a .Net DateTime variable in C#?
Also what is this date format known as?
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I am using an API that outputs dates in this format 20120314T130000 .
The date value is 13:00 14 March 2012. How can I parse a Date in this format to a .Net DateTime variable in C#?
Also what is this date format known as?
That’s ISO 8601. The ‘-‘ separators are optional in this format.
You can’t parse it with the normal DateTime.Parse method, but you can use ParseExact:
If you have a mix of dates, some with separators and some without, you might need to use a regex to extract the relevant information and then construct the DateTime object.