Question

I’m creating an application to parse the xml provided by iTunes in C# and i’m having some issues with the fields ‘Date Added’ and ‘Date Modified’ which have this syntax:

2012-02-06T23:18:17Z

i’ve tried this:

DateModified = DateTime.ParseExact(s.Element("DateModified").ToString(), "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

but the application fails with an FormatException

{"String was not recognized as a valid DateTime."}

Answer 1

I believe s.Element("DateModified").ToString() is not outputting what you think it is.

This works as expected:

var d = DateTime.ParseExact("2012-02-06T23:18:17Z", "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString());