Question

I have the following string which I want to bind to DateTime object for further processing:

Fri Dec   7 16:36:21 2012

I tried this:

string format = "ddd MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy";
DateTime.ParseExact(_srdfLag.CaptureTime, format,
                CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);

However, it throws an exception: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime

What is wrong with my code?

Answer 1

You have 24 hour date change format accordingly, you need HH instead of hh, also used instead of dd.

string date = "Fri Dec 7 16:36:21 2012";
string format = "ddd MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy";
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(date, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);