Retain MM/dd/yyyy format when converting string value to DateTime

Question

I have a string containing value in the format of 11/22/2019 00:00:00

I want to store this in a DateTime column.

I have tried this:

DateTime date ;
DateTime dtVal;
// string abcd contains 11/22/2019 00:00:00
  abcd = date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

if (DateTime.TryParseExact(abcd, "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out converteddate))
 {
 dtVal = converteddate;   // I am getting 22/11/2019 12:00:00
 }

I want the dtval value to hold the datetime value as - 11/22/2019 00:00:00

How to achieve this? Thanks

Answer 1

DateTime itself does not have its "natural" format, as John commented - it is internally "just a number";-). The ToString() method depends on Culture you set.