I have this DateTime as string: 2015-08-21T10:51:25.9495986+02:00
How can I parse this string date into a DateTime object?
I usually do this:
CultureInfo provider = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
DateTime _date;
DateTime.TryParseExact("2015-05-12T12:00:00", "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss", provider, DateTimeStyles.None, out _date))
But now the end of the DateTime contains +02:00. Never faced this format and I believe this has to do something with the Time Region right?
You can simply use the o specifier for the format
DateTime.TryParseExact("2015-08-21T10:51:25.9495986+02:00", "o", provider, DateTimeStyles.None, out _date);
This will provide you a local time, to convert to universal time you can use .ToUniversalTime()
DateTime is not appropriate here. Because it might generate different results in different timezone machines. For example; I'm UTC+3 right now and your code generates 21.08.2015 11:51:25 on my machine but in Ideone, it generates 21.08.2015 08:51:25. That's why parsing DateTimeOffset can be a better approach in this case.
DateTime.Your answer is here: C# string to DateTime with timezone
But to help:
"You should try using DateTimeOffset instead of the DateTime"
See the following example:
DateTimeOffset result = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2012-04-20 10:10:00+0200",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
