DateTime.ParseExact format string

Question

I have a web application that passes a DateTime from one page to another through the query string. It was working just fine in both IE and FireFox, but was throwing excepti

Answer 1

I tried running the code

static void Main(string[] args) {
    Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("ffffd MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"));            
    Console.Read();
}

Output is :

Mon Oct 01 2012 10:52:20 -04:00

So I guess you need to parse the GMT and (Eastern Daylight Time) part of strings as well