Question

I have a textbox for a date value which I retrieve as

Dim myDate as string = txtDate.Text.Trim

the value is in a dd/MM/yyyy format. e.g. 16/02/2012
of course for single digits, this could also be 1/2/2012

I have, in my web.config;

<globalization uiCulture="en-GB" culture="en-GB"/>

Then I use,

Dim newDate As Date = Date.ParseExact(adate, "dd/MM/yyyy", Nothing)

which produces "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime." error

I have also tried the following with no luck!:

a)

Dim newDate As DateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(adate, "dd/MM/yyyy", Nothing)

b)

Dim format() = {"dd/MM/yyyy", "d/M/yyyy", "dd-MM-yyyy"}
Dim newDate as Date = Date.ParseExact("16/02/2012", format, nothing)

for this specific one, I also tried specifiying culture-specific format information and formatting style instead of nothing above..

Any ideas? I have run out of mine….

Answer 1

I use

Convert.ToDateTime("28/02/2012", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-gb"))

Please let me know if it worked or not.