c# - String was not recognized as a valid DateTime

Question

I am converting the uk date format string to US format to save this into database but it throw me error "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime."

string dateString = "13/06/2011";
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(dateString);

I have also tried this but same exception.

DateTime aa = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "MM/dd/yyyy", new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-GB"));

Please let me know how can i convert uk format date in string to us date format.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You have specified the wrong format. It should be dd/MM/yyyy:

var dateString = "13/06/2011";
var aa = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);