Convert string to datetime

nkovacevic · April 4th, 2005, 07:32 AM

Help!!!
In my windows form application convert from string e.g. "04/30/2005 11:59:00" to datetime work fine but in my windows service convert from string to datetime always convert early string to format "30.4.2005 11:59:00" .

mehdi62b · April 4th, 2005, 01:41 PM

I think you should change the culture of your CurrentThread,try

Code:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture=new CultureInfo("en-US");

does this work?

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Mehdi.
software student.

mehdi62b · April 4th, 2005, 02:25 PM

or try this,

Code:

CultureInfo cf=new CultureInfo("en-US");
//yourString is according to en-US format
//if not you will recieve FormatException
DateTime dt=DateTime.Parse(yourString,cf);
//then you can convert every DateTime to string
//according to the culture
string sdt=dt.ToSting(cf);

HtH.

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Mehdi.
software student.

nkovacevic · April 5th, 2005, 06:47 AM

I change culture and I have error:

ERROR OCCOURED IN:Microsoft.VisualBasic
ERROR DESCRIPTION:Cast from string "03.28.2005 00:00:00" to type 'Date' is not valid.
ERROR DESCRIPTION: at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DateType.Fr omString(String Value, CultureInfo culture)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DateType.Fr omString(String Value)

mehdi62b · April 5th, 2005, 11:57 AM

did you have a look at my previous post?

I saw this "03.28.2005 00:00:00" a strange format,you can replace . with / and parse the new string.

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Mehdi.
software student.