“字符串未被识别为有效的日期时间。在读取 CSV 文件时，有一个从索引 0 开始的未知单词”

Question

so I'm using CSVhelper to read and write CSV files. I have made a class with the following properties to be written into the file.

public class Proddeets {
public string ProductArea { get; set; }
public string Product { get; set; }
public DateTime TimeTaken{ get; set; }
}

When I'm trying to read back the file I get the "String was not recognized as valid Datetime. There is an unknown word starting at index 0" error

I've tried fixing it by creating a function for the TimeTaken prop

public void SetTimeTaken()
{DateTime today= DateTime.Today;
String s = today.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy");
TimeTaken=s.Trim();
}

I get the 'cannot implicitly convert DateTime to string' error. I'm new to C# and I'm not sure how to go about this, please help

Answer 1

Your are trying to set the value of a datetime with function that returns a string, try using TimeTaken=Convert.ToDateTime(s); instead

And use string instead of String as a good practice.