Question

I have a text string that needs to become a DateTime object:

Feb 10, 2012 at 16:33.29

This text does not change, but the software will run on many different devices with different DateTime formats.

How can I set a custom DateTime parser so that regardless of culture I will get a fully populated DateTimeobject?

Answer 1

Use ParseExact with a custom format string and the invariant culture:

DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(theString, "MMM d', 'yyyy' at 'HH':'mm'.'ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);