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Convert Dates in C#

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");