DateTime.TryParse to other culture info

Question

I currently have a time reporting project where you enter a date and report time for that date, ( all the dates are shown and sent back to the backend in swedeish format etc yy-mm-dd) But if I have another culture info on my computer like dd-mm-yyyy it will parse the date wrong and it won't work.

This is my code

DateTime reportDate;
if (!DateTime.TryParse(result, out reportDate))
{
    ModelState.AddModelError("Date", "Felaktikt datum");
}

This will take my yy-mm-dd and parse it to dd-mm-yyyy because that's what my computer is set to.

Answer 1

You can specify the Swedish culture like this:

DateTime reportDate;

if (!DateTime.TryParse(result,
    System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("sv-SE"),
    System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out reportDate))
{
    ModelState.AddModelError("Date", "Felaktikt datum");
}

Answer 2

DateTime.TryParse has an extra 2 parameters, the second is IFormatProvider which you can specify which culture you want it to be representing. In your case it's sv-SE which is Sweden.

DateTime.TryParse(
    result,
    new CultureInfo("sv-SE"),
    DateTimeStyles.None,
    out reportDate
);