[2.0] Date Format

[jsc0624]

I don't really understand why this code doesn't work?

dr.BeginEdit();
                dr["ACSDate"] = hdnField.Value;
                dr["FormNum"] = txtFormNumberNew.Text;
                dr["ResponsiblePerson"] = txtResponsiblePersonNew.Text;
                dr["SiteCodeID"] = GlobalVariable.g_sitecodeID;
                dr.EndEdit();

                da.Update(ds, "tblAsset");
                ds.AcceptChanges();

The error says,

Incorrect date value: '5/30/2007 7:07:13 PM' for column 'ACSDate' at row 1

The value of hdnField.Value was taken in this code:

DateTime timeNow = DateTime.Now;
        string myTime = timeNow.ToString("h:mm:ss tt");
        string acsdate = ddlMonth.SelectedValue + "/" + ddlDays.SelectedValue + "/" + ddlYear.SelectedValue + " " + myTime;
        hdnField.Value = acsdate;

What I am using is ASP.net using C# and my database is MySQL AB Database.

[jmcilhinney]

Strings are not dates. If your column is supposed to contains dates then assign a DateTime object to it, not a string.

[jsc0624]

DateTime myTime = timeNow.ToString("h:mm:ss tt");
        DateTime acsdate = ddlMonth.SelectedValue + "/" + ddlDays.SelectedValue + "/" + ddlYear.SelectedValue + " " + myTime;
        hdnField.Value = acsdate;

I tried to change it to DateTime but the the error message says:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.DateTime'
Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.DateTime'
Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.DateTime' to 'string'

That's why I tried to use String!

I need your help!

[jmcilhinney]

If you have a date/time column in a database then you should be using DateTime objects in your VB code, NOT Strings. Do NOT create a string. Create a DateTime object. This code:

ddlMonth.SelectedValue + "/" + ddlDays.SelectedValue + "/" + ddlYear.SelectedValue + " " + myTime;

is creating a string. If you want to create a DateTime object then you use a constructor of the DateTime type.

[jsc0624]

How can I convert it to DateTime?

I tried to removed this "/";

But then the error says that the ddlMonth contains a string, it cannot be implicitly converted to System.DateTime.

[jmcilhinney]

I've told you that you need to use a DateTime constructor to create a DateTime object. Have you looked to see what constructors the DateTime structure has? I'm guessing not. I suggest you do so. Once you have then you'll know what values you need to provide to create a DateTime object. You then need to ask yourself what values you have and how you would go about converting from one to the other.