Question

My program receives data from a device in XML. The device returns date times as a string in DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss.fff format. How do I deserialize this into a DateTime object, even though the local machine is set up for the US English culture?

Answer 1

You can use DateTime.ParseExact

DateTime.ParseExact(s, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff",
                    System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Note that the case is important

• MM: month
• mm: minutes
• HH: Hours (24-hour)