How to create a readable date and time from a string?

Question

I'm using an api that returns the date as a string, like so:

2011-06-13T21:15:19Z

As you can imagine this is not the easiest format to understand. My goal is to get it to format like this:

9:15pm - 6/13/2011

Anyone know how to accomplish this? Do I need to use a regular expression or is there a way to convert this to a DateTime?

NOTE: I have tried to use the DateTime.ParseExact method but it didn't work. If this is the solution could you please show me how to convert the example above. Thanks.

Answer 1

string date = "2011-06-13T21:15:19Z";
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(date);