The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is an unknown word starting at index 0

Question

I have the following C# that is giving me the error above when trying to parse string to datetime.

DateTime backupdate = System.Convert.ToDateTime(imageflowl         


        

Answer 1

Your code looks correct; the issue is presumably with your string format, whose last : should actually be a . (indicating the start of the fractional seconds).

Incorrect: 2012-04-15 15:23:34:123
Correct:   2012-04-15 15:23:34.123

Convert.ToDateTime("2012-04-15 15:23:34.123") works fine.