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How to convert a string to a date

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  10 years ago

  by Developer Fusion Bot

  Developer Fusion Bot

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  This thread is for discussions of How to convert a string to a date.

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  6 years ago

  by svy

  Serge Y.

  DC, US, United States

  Joined 6 years ago

  DateTime dtDate = Convert.ToDateTime(strDate);
  

  
  "Convert" is a class in a "System" namespace.

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  6 years ago

  by divyashpa

  divyashpa

  , United States

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  Another Way is Also
  DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(strdate);
  
  

  
  

  
  

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  5 years ago

  by snu155

  Bradley Ball

  Atlanta, GA, United States

  Joined 5 years ago
  'Make sure that your date is correct, if you try for example to do "11/31/03"
  'you will get an error because november only has 30 days to it the correct string
  'is "11/30/2003"
  
  dim dateString as string = "11/30/2003"
  
  dim convertedDate as Date = CDate(dateString)
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  5 years ago

  by dob

  inderjeet singh

  , United States

  Joined 5 years ago

  How can i get just date part (22/12/2003) out of datetime(22/12/2003/ 1:23:00 PM) without convert to string datetypes (ShortDateString etc).
  for instance if ur passing datetime parameters to stored procedures that perform search based on dates supplied.
  Passing dates with time would not show last record coz it compares with time too.
  

  
  

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  4 years ago

  by soz

  Nandipha Sozama Mahlangu

  Pretoria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia

  Joined 4 years ago
  I've tried this piece of code:
  
  DateTime startTime;
  
  start = Convert.ToDateTime(startTimePicker.Text);
  
  Console.WriteLine(startTime.ToLongTimeString());
  
  The problem with this is that the results are string values but i want the actual time value in order to be able to use it to compare times to prevent overlaps in meeting times.
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  4 years ago

  by sanepete

  Sane Pete

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 4 years ago

  Svy,
  Cheers mate that one had thus far eluded me.

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  4 years ago

  by dateformats

  dateformats

  Northern Utah, USA, United States

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  2 years ago

  by ravi_fss

  ravi verma

  Mumbai, India

  Joined 3 years ago

  'Converts the date in format dd/MM/yyyy to date format in MM/dd/yyyy

  Dim stDate As String = "31/12/2006"

  Dim dtDate As Date

  dtDate = DateTime.Parse(stDate, Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(

  "en-CA"))

  MsgBox(dtDate)

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