Question

I have a short program which converts a string to both date and time format from a simple string.

However it seems that the String is not recorgnizable for the system to be converted into date time format due to the sequence of the string. The String that should be converted is an example like : “Thu Dec 9 05:12:42 2010”

The method of Convert.ToDateTime have been used but does not work.

May someone please advise on the codes? Thanks!

String re = "Thu Dec  9 05:12:42 2010";

DateTime time = Convert.ToDateTime(re);

Console.WriteLine(time.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"));

Answer 1

It is often necessary to give it a hint about the specific pattern that you expect:

Edit: the double-space is a pain, as d doesn’t handle that;

DateTime time = DateTime.ParseExact(re.Replace("  "," "),
     "ddd MMM d hh:mm:ss yyyy", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);