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DateTime.TryParse century control C#

I need to TryParse a string such as the following: “01/01/99” into a DateTime object, and I’m using something like this:

DateTime outDate;
if (DateTime.TryParseExact("01/01/99", "dd/MM/yy", null, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out outDate))
{
     //Do stuff here
}

Of course, this date gets parsed as 01/01/1999, which is not what I want – I want it to parse as 2099. Is there an easy way to do this? Sadly modifying the data I’m parsing to include the full year is not an option.

Answer 1

Taken from this answer, you can supply ParseExact() with a culture object. Suspect TryParseExact() would be the same:

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.LCID);
ci.Calendar.TwoDigitYearMax = 2099;
//Parse the date using our custom culture.
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(input, "MMM-yy", ci);