DateTime.TryParse issue with dates of yyyy-dd-MM format

Question

I have the following date in string format \"2011-29-01 12:00 am\" . Now I am trying to convert that to datetime format with the following code:

DateTime.Try         


        

Answer 1

This should work based on your example "2011-29-01 12:00 am"

DateTime dt;
DateTime.TryParseExact(dateTime, 
                       "yyyy-dd-MM hh:mm tt", 
                       CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, 
                       DateTimeStyles.None, 
                       out dt);