Hi.

I got a string that looks like this :

Sun Feb 16 11:52:00 CET 2014

Is it possible to convert this to a DateTime object ?

Thanks.

It needs to be in this format: Sun Feb 2014 16 11:52:00 for DateTime.Parse() to work on it.  A quick and dirty way to achieve that is:

string input = "Sun Feb 16 11:52:00 CET 2014";
string[] temp = input.Split(' ');
string dt = temp[0] + " " + temp[1] + " " + temp[5] + " " + temp[2] + " " + temp[3];
Response.Write(DateTime.Parse(dt));

try this link to see if it helps

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/datetime/TimeZoneAwareDateTime.aspx

Without the "CET", it would be easy to do it.  I'm not sure how to handle the CET...

To skip the CET (which I assume is a time zone) you can do this:

        string Input = "Sun Feb 16 11:52:00 CET 2014";

        DateTime Output;

        if (DateTime.TryParseExact(Input, "ddd MMM dd hh:mm:ss \"CET\" yyyy", null, DateTimeStyles.None, out Output) == false)
            Output = DateTime.MinValue;

There is a format/parse character (K) to the offset from Universal Time which tells me you should be using the offset, not the time zone abbreviation.

You can also check out the other DateTimeStyles...

SGWellens:

To skip the CET (which I assume is a time zone) you can do this:

string Input = "Sun Feb 16 11:52:00 CET 2014";   

1.   
2. DateTime Output;   
3.   
4. if (DateTime.TryParseExact(Input, "ddd MMM dd hh:mm:ss \"CET\" yyyy", null, DateTimeStyles.None, out Output) == false)   
5.     Output = DateTime.MinValue;  

        string Input = "Sun Feb 16 11:52:00 CET 2014";

        DateTime Output;

        if (DateTime.TryParseExact(Input, "ddd MMM dd hh:mm:ss \"CET\" yyyy", null, DateTimeStyles.None, out Output) == false)
            Output = DateTime.MinValue;

There is a format/parse character (K) to the offset from Universal Time which tells me you should be using the offset, not the time zone abbreviation.

You can also check out the other DateTimeStyles...

 

Brilliant!  I'd used ParseExact, but didn't think of \"CET\". 

It does not work for me....

I have tried all the DateTimeStyles also

If you cut and paste the example, it works.

Saying something "does not work" is not going to solve any problems.  You need to provide more information. 

Does 'CET' mean 'Central European Standard Time'?  If so you can convert the time to UTC like this (using Steve's base)

string Input = "Sun Feb 16 11:52:00 CET 2014";

DateTime CETDateTime=DateTime.MinValue;
TimeZoneInfo cet = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central European Standard Time");

DateTime.TryParseExact(Input, 
                                   "ddd MMM dd hh:mm:ss 'CET' yyyy", 
                                   null, 
                                   DateTimeStyles.None, 
                                   out CETDateTime);
DateTime utcDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTime(Output, 
                                                                           cet,
                                                                           TimeZoneInfo.Utc);

// utcDateTime is now the DateTime in UTC and CETDateTime is the DateTime in CET (One hour ahead)