Parsing a Date with Month name to C# DateTime

Question

I want to parse the following date format to a DateTime object in C#.

\"19 Aug 2010 17:48:35 GMT+00:00\"

How can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

I'd recommend using DateTime.ParseExact.

DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "dd MMM yyyy H:mm:ss \\G\\M\\Tzzz", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

As suggested in the comments below, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture is a good thing to be aware of and use if you are doing a desktop application.