How to get DateTime from string: (I don't know what format it is)
Wed Jan 08 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Central Europe Standard Time)
To DateTime?
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1-1 because not a lot of effort has gone in to finding an answer prior to posting on SONeil Thompson– Neil Thompson2014-01-22 11:01:13 +00:00Commented Jan 22, 2014 at 11:01
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StackOverflow has a wonderful feature: Search. Use it!Alberto Solano– Alberto Solano2014-01-22 11:02:39 +00:00Commented Jan 22, 2014 at 11:02
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@Dineshkumar I rolled back your changes. Please don't edit "Possible duplicate" into the body of a post. Thank you.Mr Lister– Mr Lister2014-01-22 11:07:48 +00:00Commented Jan 22, 2014 at 11:07
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Using DateTime.TryParseExact to parse the string into DateTime Object.
You can pass the format according to which you want parsing. Like in your case you would use
string dateString = "Wed Jan 08 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0100";
dateString = dateString.Replace("GMT+0100", "+01:00"); // to remove the timezone abbreviation and replace with offset value.
string format = "ddd MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz";
DateTime dt;
DateTime.TryParseExact(dateString, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);
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If you don't know what format it is, then how can you expect to parse it? How will you know if the date 2014-01-02 means the 1st Feb or 2nd Jan?
You could use a number of TryParseExact, just to rule out dates it definitely couldn't be (2014-13-12 can only be 13th Dec) but you're still left with those strings that could be parsed and are valid for two dates.
