Parse date in C#

In this post we will look how the string with date and time to be converted to DateTime. DateTime class provides Parse() method that takes string parameter that contains date and time. We can convert below kind of string to DateTime using DateTime.Parse() method: DateTime.Parse() method converts given string representation of date and time to it’s DateTime equivalent.

Sample code to convert string to DateTime using DateTime.Parse() [C#]

using System;
 public class StringToDateTime
 {
   public static void Main()
   {
     string myDateTimeValue = "2012-01-16 15:02:26";
     DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.Parse(myDateTimeValue);
     Console.WriteLine(myDateTime);
   }
 }

//Output
//16/01/2012 15:02:26