Sorting months in a list

Question

I have a list of strings which contains months of the year. I need to be able to sort this list so the months are in order by month, not alphabetically. I have been search

Answer 1

You can parse month names into dates (it assumes the current year and day 1):

monthList = monthList.OrderBy(s=> DateTime.ParseExact(s, "MMMM", new CultureInfo("en-US"))).ToList();