How can I convert DateTime "Thu Nov 30 19:00:00 EST 2006" to "11/30/2006"

Question

How can I convert DateTime "Thu Nov 30 19:00:00 EST 2006" to "11/30/2006"

Answer 1

Try something like this:

using System;
using System.Globalization;

class Example
{
    static void Main()
    {
        DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact("Thu Nov 30 19:00:00 EST 2006", 
            "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss EST yyyy", 
            CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        Console.WriteLine(dateTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy"));
    }
}

The .NET framework does not support time zone abbreviations so I hard-coded "EST" into the format string (just something to be aware of if you will need to parse strings from multiple time zones).