DateTime Conversion and Parsing DateTime.Now.ToString(“MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.fff”)

Question

I store some DateTime in a CSV log with:

DateTime.Now.ToString(\"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.fff\")

When I try to read it I found something like:

Answer 1

use DateTime.ParseExact with specifying the format

String dateStr=DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.fff");
DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(dateStr,"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.fff",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);