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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:34:13+00:00

I’m trying to parse an international datetime string similar to: 24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST So

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I’m trying to parse an international datetime string similar to:

24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST

So far I’ve got something like:

CultureInfo culture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture('nl-BE'); DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact('24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST',     'dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss ...', culture);

The problem is what should I use for the ‘…’ in the format string? Looking at the Custom Date and Time Format String MSDN page doesn’t seem to list a format string for parsing timezones in PST/CEST/GMT/UTC form.

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  1. AFAIK the time zone abbreviations are not recognized. However if you replace the abbreviation with the time zone offset, it will be OK. E.g.:

    DateTime dt1 = DateTime.ParseExact('24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST'.Replace('CEST', '+2'), 'dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss z', culture); DateTime dt2 = DateTime.ParseExact('24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST'.Replace('CEST', '+02'), 'dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss zz', culture); DateTime dt3 = DateTime.ParseExact('24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST'.Replace('CEST', '+02:00'), 'dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss zzz', culture);
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