Question

I’m performing an HttpWebRequest against an IIS server.
One of the response headers is Date, which I’d like to parse.
This is its value:

"Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:16:13 GMT"

How do I parase this string? DateTime.Parse didn’t quite work out well for me.

Thanks!

Answer 1

use DateTime.TryParse

var d = "Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:16:13 GMT";
DateTime dt;
var b = DateTime.TryParse(d, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat, 
    DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);
Console.WriteLine(dt);

Outputs:

11-10-2009 01:46:13

Note: the time is little off the mark, I think it is being converted to local time.