convert string in unknown format to date in c#

Question

I have searched stackoverflow for an answer but no luck. I am developing a windows application and I have some strings in different date formats, eg.

dd/MM/y         


        

Answer 1

If you are processing some import file with a lot of dates in the same unknown format, you could try different formats and hope there is exactly one that doesn't give format errors.

Or to put it another way: split the "dates" into three numbers and check the range of values for each of those numbers. Values > 1900 will be years. If you find values from 1 to 31, those will be days. Values from 1 to 12 might be months, but could also be days. Try and identify each of the parts.

The best way is to ask the supplier of those dates for the format.