System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

[pankajprakash]

Hi all,
i have created a web application on my location (India) and when i run the application it's run fine, but when i host this application in autralia then the above errors occours by the following line

DateTime WhenDtg = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));


i am not getting the solution.

[mikeyeli]

Hi all,
i have created a web application on my location (India) and when i run the application it's run fine, but when i host this application in autralia then the above errors occours by the following line

DateTime WhenDtg = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));


i am not getting the solution.

my guess is, its a Culture issue, a date's format in India is not the same as in Australia.

Read the following: Developing World Ready Applications,

theres a part in that section where it talks about formatting Date and Time for a Specific Culture.

[pankajprakash]

my guess is, its a Culture issue, a date's format in India is not the same as in Australia.

Read the following: Developing World Ready Applications,

theres a part in that section where it talks about formatting Date and Time for a Specific Culture.

i had also change the culture but the problem remain the same.

[Plater]

Question:
Whay are you doing that line at all?

DateTime WhenDtg = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
 

All you're doing there is taking a DateTime object, making it a string, then trying to make it a DateTime object again. That is a big waste. DateTime is not stored "in a format", that is just for displaying purposes.

DateTime WhenDtg = DateTime.Now;
 

[mikeyeli]

yeah, Plater has a good point there...no need to do that.