In The YouTube v3 Developer API, when retrieving the video duration it's returned in ISO 8601 format.
How can I parse this as a DateTime object in C#?
Here's an example: PT5M58S
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3This might help you: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3556144/1715004 – Filipe Borges May 04 '16 at 20:17
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I have read that but the format of the string in that thread is different and wouldn't work for this. I've tried the flagged answer and it was throwing an unrecognised format exception – James Wilkinson May 04 '16 at 20:21
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Actually, you should use TimeSpan as it is a time interval. – Filipe Borges May 04 '16 at 20:28
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this will help you: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12466271/1715004 – Filipe Borges May 04 '16 at 20:36
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TimeSpan ts = XmlConvert.ToTimeSpan("PT5M58S");
Best option is to convert to a TimeSpan instead of a DateTime.
From the MS docs on TimeSpan (https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.timespan):
Represents a time interval.
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