split strings into integers

[crabramson]

Just to add for crabramson, I'm not sure if you'll want the actual time part of the Date returned by:

Debug.WriteLine(StartDate)

So you can do:

Debug.WriteLine(StartDate.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"))

That causes ArgumentOutOfRangeException: The added or subtracted value results in an un-representable DateTime. Parameter name: value