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.\"

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Answer 1

DateTime.Parse with an en-GB culture works fine:

string dateString = "13/06/2011";

DateTime aa = DateTime.Parse(dateString, new CultureInfo("en-GB"));
// aa.Day == 13
// aa.Month == 6
// aa.Year == 2011

string result = aa.ToString("d", new CultureInfo("en-US"));
// result == "6/13/2011"

Answer 2

try this

DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(dtString,
System.Threading.Tread.CurrentThread.CurrentCultur e.DateTimeFormat);

Answer 3

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);