How to parse certain string to datetime format

Question

I receive data containing a string of a datetime in the following format:

Tue Nov 08 11:20:00 GMT 2016
Fri Nov 11 08:05:00 GMT 2016

I'm finding it very difficult to parse this into a DateTime. How can this be parsed into a date time?

Answer 1

I think this should work:

public DateTime ConvertToDateTime(string dateString)
{
    return DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
}

Answer 2

You can use DateTime.ParseExact with a custom format string :

var dt = DateTime.ParseExact("Tue Nov 08 11:20:00 GMT 2016", 
    "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

See this fiddle .