Parsing a Date Like “Wednesday 13th January 2010” with .NET

Question

How can I convert the following strings to a System.DateTime object?

Wednesday 13th January 2010
Thursday 21st January 2010
Wednesday 3rd February 2010

Answer 1

Where does "th", "st","nd" or "rd" appear below?

• monday
• tuesday
• wednesday
• thursday
• friday
• saturday

• sunday

• january

• february
• march
• april
• may
• june
• july
• august
• september
• october
• november
• december

However you know those 4 will always be followed by a space. So unless I've missed something, a simple

value = value.Replace("August","Augus").Replace("nd ","").Replace("st ","").Replace("nd ","").Replace("rd ","").Replace("Augus","August");
DateTime dt;
DateTime.TryParseExact(value,"DDDD dd MMMM yyyy", DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);