Date.parse(2/4/2011 9:34:48 AM)

Question

my input will be from a variable (Ticket.CreationDate) and will look like

2/4/2011 9:34:48 AM (it will vary of course)

Ideally I could pass in the variable as-i

Answer 1

Create a function which takes date and in-format string and out-format string as parameter

string FormatDate(string date, string informat,string outformat)
{
    var culture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US");
    return DateTime.ParseExact(date, informat, culture).ToString(outformat);
}

FormatDate("2/4/2011 9:34:48 AM","M/d/yyyy H:m:s tt","H:m:s")               //9:34:48

You can get different format string from here