String was not recognized as a valid DateTime

Question

I'm receiving this error "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime" with the code below:

DateTimeOffSet dt=new DateTimeOffset(Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt")));

It works in DEV environment but not in Production.

Could anyone please advice what's wrong with the code above?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Convert.ToDateTime uses current culture information about DateTime format. Try something like this:

string format = "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm tt";
string stringDate = DateTime.Now.ToString(format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(stringDate, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Answer 2

Why are you converting from DateTime to string and then back to DateTime?

I think this should work fine:

DateTimeOffset dt = new DateTimeOffset(DateTime.Now);