DateTime.Parse date format

Question

I have a date represented as a string thus

20130116154407

I called DateTime.Parse on this but it failed. How can I convert this to a DateTime? Incidentally the timezone is CET.

EDIT

The solutions provided are very useful, so far but it seems they do not support 24 hour clocks, still looking for a solution that does.

EDIT 2

The correct format is

DateTime.ParseExact(str, "yyyyMMddHHmmss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Thanks,

Sachin

Answer 1

You need to specify a format:

DateTime.ParseExact(str, "yyyyMMddHHmmss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Answer 2

Use this code

string DATE_FORMAT= "yyyyMMddhhmmss";

DateTime date;
if(DateTime.TryParseExact(str, DATE_FORMAT, DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo, DateTimeStyles.None, out date))
{
//success
//you can use date
}else
{
//fail
}