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Parse Particular Date Format C# [duplicate]

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Parse string to DateTime in C#
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Can anybody help me convert this into date time format?
20210115122710
I need in format like
DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact("20210115122710", "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss", null);

You are parsing DateTime with wrong format, use "yyyyMMddHHmmss" instead of "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss",
DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact("20210115122710", "yyyyMMddHHmmss", null);
Now whenever you want to print it in given format, then use .ToString() method,
string dateInGivenFormat = date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
Note: I used HH for hours instead of hh.
HH : Use of HH converts hours in 24-hours format i.e from 00 to 23.
hh : hh converts hours in 12-hours format i.e from 00 to 12.
If your time is in 12-hour format then use hh otherwise use HH.
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Xamarin Forms Can not parse a DateTime [duplicate]

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I am trying to get this date 4th April 2021 12:00 which is todays date into a DateTime object.
I am in the UK and the emulator's locale is set to GB summer time and the format looks correct in it's setting page.
I have a date as a string:
string dateTimeStr = "08-04-2021 12:00";
I have tried this:
t = DateTime.Parse(dateTimeStr);
I get a datetime object of
4th Aug 2021 12:00
How can I parse a date as a string to DateTime and be sure that the month and the day will not be swapped?

DateTime.ParseExact(dateTimeStr, "dd/MMM/yyyy hh:mm", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
you can use ParseExact and mention the date format as per your requirement.

Date format issue dd/mm/yyyy C# [duplicate]

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Needing expert advice for date format issue . I have a string value strDate= "03/04/2018" which is dd/mm/yyyy . I am trying to convert into format dd mmm yyyy . If I use (Convert.ToDateTime(strDate)).ToString("dd MMM yyyy") , this results in 4 Mar 2018 instead of 3 Apr 2018 .
Can anyone please suggest if this is dependent on the system and regional setting ? Is it possible to make it work independent of regional settings ?

var strDate = "03/04/2018";
var result = DateTime.ParseExact(strDate, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
.ToString("d MMM yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Human readable date to DateTime [duplicate]

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I need to convert from a "human readable" date format to DateTime, for example:
From: January 20, 2013
To: MM/dd/yyyy
Does anybody know what's the format or if there's one for doing this with DateTime.Parse and providing the format? I just want to check before jumping into a date parser.

Custom Date and Time Format Strings
MMMM dd, yyyy is a format string you're looking for.
Use DateTime.ParseExact or DateTime.TryParseExact to parse the datetime using specific format string.
After parsing you'll be able to print the value in format you want:
string input = "20, 2013";
DateTime value;
if (DateTime.TryParseExact(input, "dd, yyyy", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out value))
{
string output = value.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
}

I'm not quite sure your goal, but are you trying to format your DateTime based upon which MM/dd/yyyy format that you choose?
If you are you would simply do:
DateTime.Now.ToString(MM/dd/yyy);
DateTime.Now.ToString(MMMM, MM dd, yyyy);
DateTime.Now.ToString(MMMM, MM dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss);
Essentially you have to use these:
Capital MM : Represents the Month, so MMMM (Also creates the Long Date).
Lowercase d : Will represent the day.
Lowercase y: Will represent the year.
Then the hh:mm:ss will actually add an hour, minute, second.
You can also utilize Parse to also ensure it is correctly captured.
Essentially you can easily manage or alter the Format based on whatever you require. MSDN has some great articles on this as well.
Hopefully that helps. Looks like while I was posting a few answers got generated. So your going to get some solid feedback.

Troubles parsing DateTime from string

I am currently trying to parse a string that is obtained from an xml that is downloaded from the web every few minutes. The string looks like this:
Thu Jul 12 08:39:56 GMT+0100 2012
At first I just did a string.split and took out everything after the time (GMT+0100 2012) and inserted 2012 after the date.
This worked great until the date changed to:
Thu Jul 12 08:39:56 GMT+0000 2012
So I would like to dynamically pasre the GMT+ whatever as they send me that string in c#.
Any advice would be appreciated.

You can use DateTime.ParseExact with a custom date and time format string:
DateTime.ParseExact("Thu Jul 12 08:39:56 GMT+0000 2012",
"ddd MMM dd hh:mm:ss 'GMT'K yyyy",
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
This will throw a format exception if the string and format string do not match exactly, so you may want to use DateTime.TryParseExact that will return a false if it fails.
Instead of DateTime you may want to use DateTimeOffset that preserved timezone information , as #Keith commented - this may be important to your application.

Two things you can do: First, you should be able to use a custom format string with a ParseExact method, either from DateTime or DateTimeOffset (I would use DateTimeOffset if the actual time zone of the stamp is important, and not just the equivalent time in UTC or your local time zone).
Have a look: DateTime custom format string
The format string would probably be something like #"ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT'zzzz yyyy".
However, there's one snag; the .NET time zone offset ("zzzz" or simply "K") always includes a colon between the hour and minute when expressed as a string, which your input strings do not have. There is no way I know of to specify that the time zone offset doesn't/shouldn't have this colon, and I'm pretty sure that trying to parse it without a colon would cause an error.
The simplest workaround is to remove that specific colon from the string prior to parsing it. The code for that given your input is simply to remove the last colon character in the string:
var updatedString = inputString.Remove(inputString.LastIndexOf(':'), 1);

Try DateTime.Parse method to parse your date.

This should work:
XmlConvert.ToDateTime(textBox1.Text, "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss 'GMT'zzzz yyyy");