Question

I have a string which contains date and has a format of “MMMyy”. How would it be possible to do that?
Sample:

string date = "MAY09";
DateTime a = DateTime.Parse("MAY09"); //Gives "2012.05.09 00:00:00"
DateTime b = DateTime.ParseExact("MAY09", "MMMyy", null); //Gives error
DateTime c = Convert.ToDateTime("MAY09"); //Gives "2012.05.09 00:00:00"

I need "2009-05-01"

Answer 1

Specify invariant culture fore the third parameter instead of null:

DateTime b = DateTime.ParseExact("MAY09", "MMMyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);