Parse String to Datetime

Question

Is there a equivalent on .net of the string parsing of Datejs ( http://www.datejs.com/ ) ?

I wanna do things like

// Convert text into Date
Date.parse(‘today’);
Date.parse(‘t + 5 d’); // today + 5 days
Date.parse(‘next thursday’);
Date.parse(‘February 20th 1973′);
Date.parse(‘Thu, 1 July 2004 22:30:00′);

Tks!

One option is always using this inside your page and passing a correctly formatted date in the post back. — Chris Marisic, Aug 06 '09 at 17:09
Good question. I don't know a solution, and it can be very useful. — jpbochi, Aug 06 '09 at 17:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

The closest thing in the framwork is DateTime.Parse and DateTime.TryParse. Unfortunately, these will only handle your last 2 cases, but the first 3 will not work.

There is no built-in way to do date manipulations using the standard DateTime parsing methods. However, this answer to a different question provides a utility class which will handle some of your other cases (or something similar), using regular expressions.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '09 at 17:11

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As Reed mentions, there is nothing like this built into the .Net framework.

Microsoft JScript is a .Net language that can be used for server-side processing; you might look into seeing if you can integrate Datejs that way.

answered Aug 06 '09 at 17:11

Aric TenEyck

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