How do I convert Paypal's HH:MM:SS DD Mmm(.) YYYY PST/PDT to a C# UTC DateTime?

Question

I would like to log a payment_date in this format in a SQL Server database.

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Answer 1

The code in this post seems to work fine: http://www.codeillustrator.com/2010/03/converting-paypal-paymentdate-to-net.html

using System;
using System.Globalization;

public static class PayPalTransaction
{
    public static DateTime ConvertPayPalDateTime(string payPalDateTime)
    {
    // accept a few different date formats because of PST/PDT timezone and slight month difference in sandbox vs. prod.
        string[] dateFormats = { "HH:mm:ss MMM dd, yyyy PST", "HH:mm:ss MMM. dd, yyyy PST", "HH:mm:ss MMM dd, yyyy PDT", "HH:mm:ss MMM. dd, yyyy PDT" };
        DateTime outputDateTime;

        DateTime.TryParseExact(payPalDateTime, dateFormats, new CultureInfo("en-US"), DateTimeStyles.None, out outputDateTime);

        // convert to local timezone
        outputDateTime = outputDateTime.AddHours(3);

        return outputDateTime;
    }
}

(answer cross-posted for this similar question: How to cast this date and save to database)