Question
Does anyone know of an easy (built in) way to convert a string like '20081231T130000' (ICalendar I think) to DateTime in C#? Or do I need to parse the string?
Solution
Try this:
DateTime when = DateTime.ParseExact("20081231T130000",
"yyyyMMddTHHmmss",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Aside: it is close to the format used in xml, but not quite close enough - otherwise XmlConvert
wraps this:
DateTime when = XmlConvert.ToDateTime("2008-12-31T13:00:00");
OTHER TIPS
This seemed to work:
string dateTimeString = "20080115T115959";
string format = "yyyyMMddTHHmmss";
IFormatProvider us = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", true);
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(dateTimeString, format, us);
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