String was not recognized as a valid DateTime in C#

Question

I have the following code in my project (which was taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/12257557).

string r = "08/05/2015";
IFormatProvider culture = new CultureInfo("en-US", true);
DateTime t1 = DateTime.ParseExact(r, "yyyy-MM-dd", culture);

the value inside r is in MM/dd/yyyy

For the ParseExact I am getting the error

string was not recognized as a valid date time.

I gone through most of the question in stackoverflow all are giving the above codes. Do I am missing anything?

Follow this, it may help you. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31823320/how-to-convert-string-value-jul-28-0000-to-datetime-in-c-sharp/31823421#31823421 — NASSER, Aug 05 '15 at 05:33
Funny how a date that's in `MM/dd/yyyy` is deemed invalid when asking it to be parsed as `yyyy-MM-dd`. — Brendan Green, Aug 05 '15 at 05:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 05:35

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DateTime t1 = DateTime.ParseExact(r, "MM/dd/yyyy", culture);

answered Aug 05 '15 at 05:35

Amit Kumar Ghosh

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 05:34

1

replace

DateTime t1 = DateTime.ParseExact(r, "yyyy-MM-dd", culture);

with

DateTime t1 = DateTime.ParseExact(r, "MM/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

answered Aug 05 '15 at 05:34

fubo

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 05:35

1

Parse exact required exact format. So format must be MM/dd/yyyy.

string r = "08/05/2015";
IFormatProvider culture = new CultureInfo("en-US", true);
DateTime t1 = DateTime.ParseExact(r, "MM/dd/yyyy", culture);

for details check this

answered Aug 05 '15 at 05:35

Rohit Harkhani

3 Answers3