What do I need to parse the date correctly

Question

I'm receiving a bad parsing from the content in a database.

This is what I'm receiving and the date string.

FORMAT EXCEPTION: The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is an unknown word starting at index 20.

11/02/2013 12:30:44 pm

I'm using DateTime.Parse(...) , what do I need to change to perform the parsing?

Answer 1

use DateTime.ParseExact()

DateTime x = DateTime.ParseExact("11/02/2013 12:30:44 p.m.", "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt", null)

• DateTime.ParseExact Method