Converting dd mm yyyy formatted string to Datetime

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I am new to DotNet and C   I want to convert a string in mm dd yyyy format to DateTime object  I tried the parse function like below but it is throwing a runtime error   DateTime dt DateTime Parse  24 01 2013      Any ideas on how may I convert it to datetime

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use DateTime ParseExact  string strDate    24 01 2013   DateTime date   DateTime ParseExact strDate   dd MM YYYY   null     DateTime ParseExact   null will use the current culture  which is somewhat dangerous  Try to supply a specific culture  DateTime date   DateTime ParseExact strDate   dd MM YYYY   CultureInfo InvariantCulture

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You need to use DateTime ParseExact with format  dd MM yyyy   DateTime dt DateTime ParseExact  24 01 2013    dd MM yyyy   CultureInfo InvariantCulture     Its safer if you use d M yyyy for the format  since that will handle both single digit and double digits day month  But that really depends if you are expecting single double digit values      Your date  format day Month Year might be an acceptable date format for some cultures  For example for Canadian Culture en-CA DateTime Parse would work like   DateTime dt   DateTime Parse  24 01 2013   new CultureInfo  en-CA       Or   System Threading Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   new CultureInfo  en-CA    DateTime dt   DateTime Parse  24 01 2013      uses the current Thread s culture   Both the above lines would work because the the string s format is acceptable for en-CA culture  Since you are not supplying any culture to your DateTime Parse call  your current culture is used for parsing which doesn t support the date format  Read more about it at DateTime Parse      Another method for parsing is using DateTime TryParseExact  DateTime dt  if  DateTime TryParseExact  24 01 2013                                 d M yyyy                                CultureInfo InvariantCulture                               DateTimeStyles None      out dt           valid date   else         invalid date     The TryParse group of methods in  Net framework doesn t throw exception on invalid values  instead they return a bool value indicating success or failure in parsing    Notice that I have used single d and M for day and month respectively  Single d and M works for both single double digits day and month  So for the format d M yyyy valid values could be     24 01 2013   24 1 2013   4 12 2013    4 December 2013  04 12 2013    For further reading you should see  Custom Date and Time Format Strings

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You can use  dd MM yyyy  format for using it in DateTime ParseExact      Converts the specified string representation of a date and time to its   DateTime equivalent using the specified format and culture-specific   format information  The format of the string representation must match   the specified format exactly    DateTime date   DateTime ParseExact  24 01 2013    dd MM yyyy   CultureInfo InvariantCulture     Here is a DEMO   For more informations  check out Custom Date and Time Format Strings

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