How to accept datetime irrespective of format?

Question

I have a web service created which will accept date time as input.

The data type i used is system.datetime.

It accepting if the input is in mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd but not if dd/mm/yyyy.

How to solve this?

You can't accept both mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy, how would you know whether 01/02/2014 was 1st Feb 2014 or 2nd Jan 2014. — Ben Robinson, Nov 26 '14 at 12:13
try to get only one standard input type either dd/mm/yyyy or anyone of these — Ameya Deshpande, Nov 26 '14 at 12:15
The best you can do is to give a preference to mm/dd/yyyy over dd/mm/yyyy (or vice versa) to handle dates that are ambiguous — juharr, Nov 26 '14 at 12:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 12:48

You can use following logic

        string str = "26/11/2014";
        DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(str, "dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        newString = dt.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");
        Console.Write(newString);
        Console.ReadKey();

and can pass newStr to WebService Method.

How to accept datetime irrespective of format?

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