DateTime.TryParse issue with dates of yyyy-dd-MM format

Question

I have the following date in string format \"2011-29-01 12:00 am\" . Now I am trying to convert that to datetime format with the following code:

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Answer 1

From DateTime on msdn:

Type: System.DateTime% When this method returns, contains the DateTime value equivalent to the date and time contained in s, if the conversion succeeded, or MinValue if the conversion failed. The conversion fails if the s parameter is null, is an empty string (""), or does not contain a valid string representation of a date and time. This parameter is passed uninitialized.

Use parseexact with the format string "yyyy-dd-MM hh:mm tt" instead.