Convert to dateTime from string (arabic culture to english)

Question

string strHijdt ="29-02-1435";

    DateTime hdt = DateTime.ParseExact(strHijdt, "dd/MMM/yyyy HH:MI24",
    CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Getting error while convert to string("29-02-1435") to datetime

Answer 1

2/1435 has 28 days only

so, below will work

string aa="28-02-1435";
DateTime hdt = DateTime.ParseExact(aa, "dd-MM-yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Console.WriteLine(hdt.ToLongDateString());

DEMO

since you have given input as 29-02-1435 even you provide correct date time format ( dd-MM-yyyy ) you will get error for the invalid date

Answer 2

Two problems here: 1. As mentioned above, expected format for does not match string (there is no time, different separator) 2. If your date string is in Hijri calendar, you should either provide correct culture explicitly or use system culture (pass null for IFormatProvider):

string strHijdt = "29-02-1435";
var culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("ar-SA");
DateTime hdt = DateTime.ParseExact(strHijdt, "dd-MM-yyyy", culture);