DateTime Issue

[nukiee]

Take a look at the blog - http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full

Look under the <pubDate>. Most of them appears as -

<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:18:15 EST</pubDate>

When parsing this date using - (in .net 1.1)

DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse("Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:18:15 EST");

It fails. However if I put in "GMT" instead of "EST" or "PST" etc., the above statement will pass without any problem.

How can I handle so many different variations? This particular blog have this situation and some others may have completely different thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[misogsk]

Take a look at the blog - http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full

Look under the <pubDate>. Most of them appears as -

<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:18:15 EST</pubDate>

When parsing this date using - (in .net 1.1)

DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse("Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:18:15 EST");

It fails. However if I put in "GMT" instead of "EST" or "PST" etc., the above statement will pass without any problem.

How can I handle so many different variations? This particular blog have this situation and some others may have completely different thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There's one way(not much nice,but...) replace the last three letters with GMT. Trim the last three letters and then append to that string a "GMT". Not very nice, but still function.

[nukiee]

There's one way(not much nice,but...) replace the last three letters with GMT. Trim the last three letters and then append to that string a "GMT". Not very nice, but still function.

But in that case if the time is actually a GMT time and I am parsing it in EST, I will miss interpret the time - isn't that correct?

[kenobewan]

I believe that GMT is now called UTC - try using the DateTime.ToUniversalTime method to convert a local DateTime to its UTC equivalent.

Hope that this helps.