*not resolved:) * DateTime confusion, help me plz :(

[MrPolite]

I'm simply trying to parse from this date string:
Thu Oct 10 19:21:45 2002


I'm just testing it with a simple string, and its not working

Dim dtfi As New Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo
dtfi.LongDatePattern="ddd"
doing DateTime.Parse("mon", dtfi) will give me an error. It will work if I choose the current day of the week instead of "mon" though. Other than that, I get this error:
Run-time exception thrown : System.FormatException - String was not recognized as a valid DateTime because the day of week was incorrect.

someone help me out plz I want to parse from the date string above, but seems like I cant

[hellswraith]

Not sure. The only way I would approach it would be to spit the string up, then grab the parts out that I need. The problem is your string is not formatted in a normal format. Usually the date is together, but on yours, you have the year after the time....just to much for a parser to handle, and just enough to cause you headaches.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by hellswraith
Not sure. The only way I would approach it would be to spit the string up, then grab the parts out that I need. The problem is your string is not formatted in a normal format. Usually the date is together, but on yours, you have the year after the time....just to much for a parser to handle, and just enough to cause you headaches.

well the "beauty" of .NET is that it allows you to parse from a custom date format but it seems like it's not workign for me plus, I just tried to parse from a simple date like this "mon 11:45" and it wouldnt work (it would only work if I used the current day of the week). There is also a ParseExact method, but I dont know how to use that one either.
anyone knows how to do this?

[Danny J]

This is pretty simple, in .NET, they program Thursday to be Thur, not Thu.

[MrPolite]

hmm
still, I dont know what's wrong, it wouldnt work with other stuff either (like 12:45:30 2003). I'm almost positive it's doable with the parse method, but anyways, I ended up rearranging the date string to match the datetime format and then I used parse

[Danny J]

Just parse it the old way