c＃-文本框日期值显示为01/01/1900

Question

I have a textbox as per below that is meant to capture the date:

<input name="datereceived" type="date" class="FormDateValues" id="datereceived"  value="" runat="server" />

However, when I try and retreive the value in the code behind, I get a value of 01/01/1900.

DateTime InvoiceDate = DateTime.Parse(datereceived.Value);

Can someone please tell me why is this returning a blank date?

Thanks

Answer 1

Do you have any format for your datereceived variable? If so, you can try this:

DateTime.ParseExact(datereceived.Value, "MM/dd/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

You can specify the exact format of your date via the MM/dd/yyyy format specifiers, also, try to look at other possible parsing technique using TryParseExact() to avoid exceptions.

Answer 2

String was not recognized as a valid DateTime error will occur due to following reason :

1. If input text/ value is empty: If value is empty in input field then your conversion from null to date time will cause this.

2.If input text/value is in different format that yo want to going to convert. Let suppose your input field is in "dd-MM-yyyy" and you are Parse it to "dd/MM/yyyy" then it will be through error.

So please check your format and convert it in other ways.

May this help you to figure out your error.