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String was not recognized as a Valid DateTime

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String was not recognized as a Valid DateTime

Ramco Ramco

4yAsked May 9, 2022, 5:16 PM1.2k.NET

Hi

In txtPaymentDate0.Text it is showing "07/05/2022 00:00:00". On below line it is giving above error

DateTime PaymentDate2 = DateTime.ParseExact(txtPaymentDate0.Text, "dd-MM-yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Thanks

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Jochen Bartlau4y ago
Accepted answer
Your string and the format identifier do not match exactly - which ParseExact does expect. The following works fine (replaced "-" with "/"):
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.ParseExact("07/05/2022 00:00:00", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
If you're looking for a "more forgiving" way to parse your date and don't really care if the format matches exactly, the following is also perfectly fine:
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Parse("07/05/2022 00:00:00", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
Both return 7/5/2022 12:00:00 AM as result.
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Santosh Karanam4y ago
To overcome the 2 digit and 1 digit numbers in days and months with and without zeros i have used below parse

DateTime.ParseExact(stringDate, "d/M/yyyy HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

input: 07/05/2022 00:00:00
output: 7/5/2022 12:00:00 AM

input: 7/5/2022 00:00:00
output: 7/5/2022 12:00:00 AM
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