Date Formatting C#

Question

I am having an issue converting this date format into another format. I was hoping that somebody on here would be able to help me out.

Here is my code:

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Answer 1

string fromFormat = "ffffd, dd MM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"; 

The error is your zzz, it is expecting the numerical representation of the timezone, not the abbreviation of the timezone.

So a acceptable version would be

DateTime newDate = DateTime.ParseExact("Mon, 22 03 2013 00:00:00 +0:00", fromFormat, null);

but that would throw a different FormatExecption with the message "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime because the day of week was incorrect." If you make the Monday to Friday correction the parse works

DateTime newDate = DateTime.ParseExact("Fri, 22 03 2013 00:00:00 +0:00", fromFormat, null);

I don't think there is a format specifier that can take in the textual abbreviation version of the timezone.