C#: DateTime convert

Question

I am recieving a date in the format:

18/04/2011 4:57:20 PM

The DateTime.Parse() method does not access it.

Is there a way to get it to convert 18/04/2011 4:57:20 PM to return a Date object April 18, 2011?

Answer 1

This doesn't look like a standard format. The date is en-GB, the time en-US. Because of this, I would recommend you use DateTime.ParseExact and pass the format:

DateTime parsed = DateTime.ParseExact("18/04/2011 4:57:20 PM", 
                                      "dd/MM/yyyy h:mm:ss tt", 
                                      CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Answer 2

First of all, to change the format of a date, you need a DateTime value. You can not format a string date. Use DateTime.ParseExact to extract your date value from a formated date string:

DateTime dateValue = 
   DateTime.ParseExact(stringDateValue, "dd/MM/yyyy h:mm:ss tt", 
        CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Then you can use DateTime.ToString(format) to extract a formated string value:

resultStringDateValue = dateValue.ToString("MMM dd, yyyy");