vb2010. convert string to date

hi everyone

I'm studying visual basic in my course
and in my book there was this example

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so when I tried to do it , it didn't work
I did the same thing as written
but I don't know what is the problem with me

this is the error message apear to me
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can you help

I can only assume that it has something to do with the system date format on your machine. If you do this:

vb.net Code:

MessageBox.Show(Date.Now.ToShortDateString())

what do you see?

yaah, it seems that

what apear is the date of today 05/04/32
cuz my computer is in hijri calender

so what I have to do , can I change it?

You need to enter a string that your system can recognise as a date.

I change the calendar type and it work now
thank you