Question

there’s something i couldn’t understand with DateTime.ToOaDate().

here’s what i have

var plainDate = "01/07/2011";
var dateTime1 = DateTime.Parse(plainDate, new CultureInfo("en-GB"));
var value = dateTime1.ToOADate();
var dateTime2 = DateTime.Parse(DateTime.FromOADate(value).ToString(), new CultureInfo("en-GB"));

dateTime1 and dateTime2 should be the same, right? i only converted plain date into ticks and then recovered it as DateTime with the same culture,, but actually when i run it dateTime2 has the value of (7-Jan-2011) instead of (1-Jul-2011)

Answer 1

I think it’s because your call to ToString does not specify the culture info.

Try ToString(new CultureInfo("en-GB")) as well.