Datetime.parse is not working

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Hi,

DateTime.Parse is not working.
I have written follwing code.

What I have tried:

DateTime.Parse("29/12/2016", "en");

same code is working for other culture. only for english its giving follwing error.

String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.</pre>

Thanks......

Posted 27-Dec-16 19:55pm

viprat

Updated 27-Dec-16 20:11pm

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2016-12-27T20:11:00

Solution 1

According to DateTime.Parse Method (String, IFormatProvider) (System)[^], the second parameter is IFormatProvider[^].
Try

C#

using System;
using System.Globalization;

public class Program
{
	public static void Main()
	{
		DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse("29/12/2016", new CultureInfo("en-GB"));

		Console.WriteLine(dt);

	}
}

Posted 27-Dec-16 20:11pm

Peter Leow

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Maciej Los 28-Dec-16 2:33am

5.

viprat 28-Dec-16 2:54am

thanks... above code is working.. but why its not working with only "en". what is the difference between "en" and "en-GB"??

Peter Leow 28-Dec-16 3:07am

"en" is the same as "en-US" which means year/month/day to which your value of "29/12/2016" does not fit. Instead, it fits into "en-GB" which is for UK culture of day/month/year.

CPallini 28-Dec-16 2:59am

5.

Peter Leow 28-Dec-16 3:10am

Thank you, CPallini.