datetime.parseexact returns wrong month

Question

Here is my code:

a.dateFrom = DateTime.ParseExact(x, "dd/mm/yyyy", null);

And x has value of: 08/03/2012

However, a.dateFrom has value of 08/01/2012. Why?

Answer 1

You should use MM as format for month

Answer 2

As ionden notes, you should have a format of

"dd/MM/yyyy"

Currently you're parsing the second part as minutes (as that's what mm means).

See the documentation for custom date and time format strings for more information. I'd also strongly encourage you to consider using the invariant culture for parsing - if you're using a custom format string, that usually means you don't want to treat the input in a culture-sensitive fashion at all.