Question

I have come across this weird data string, and I really don’t know what I can do to convert it.

“Sat Jan 07 03:18:58 +0000 2012”

Does anyone know how to convert it?

Answer 1

You can use the DateTimeOffset.ParseExact method to specify the exact custom format string that the date is in, like below. I’m using DateTimeOffset because you have the timezone offset value in the string.

string myDateString = "Sat Jan 07 03:18:58 +0000 2012";
string customFormat = "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy";

DateTimeOffset dto = DateTimeOffset.ParseExact(myDateString, customFormat, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Then you can use the different properties of the DateTimeOffset structure to work with the date as necessary.