String was not recognisedas a valid date time show the error

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Code as follows:

DGVCalendar.Rows[row].Cells[0].Value = Convert.ToDateTime(dt1.ToString("dd-MM-yy"));

In the above line error shows as follows,

String was not recognised as a valid date time

What is the mistake i made in the above code.

Please help me.

Thanks & Regards,
Narasiman P

Posted 22-Feb-13 2:50am

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Updated 22-Feb-13 2:52am

Abhishek Pant

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Avinash Shewale 22-Feb-13 9:02am

will you explain in brief what you wanted to do with this code?
please explain your aim when you post any question.

what is "dt1" here ?

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Jegan Thiyagesan · Answer 1 · 2013-02-22T02:57:00

Solution 1

Hi,

First: The valid DateTime string is

yyyy-MM-dd.

Second: Why are you change the DateTime object to string and back to DateTime?

Shouldn't be like this:

DGVCalendar.Rows[row].Cells[0].Value = dt1.ToShortDateString();

Regards
Jegan

Posted 22-Feb-13 2:57am

Jegan Thiyagesan

Shubh Agrahari · Answer 2 · 2013-02-22T03:30:00

hi professional

basically "String was not recognized as a valid date time" error occurs when you did not putting right date time format.

so try this...

C#

DGVCalendar.Rows[row].Cells[0].Value = Convert.ToDateTime(dt1.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"));

and if it will not work properly then
for more date time formats see below link...

http://www.dotnetperls.com/datetime-format[^]

Happy to help