Date issue while reading data from excel in c#

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while Reading Data from Excel

in some file it returning Date values wrong

for eg. returnig 30-10-2014 12:00 PM as 30-10-02014 12:00 PM

Posted 23-Feb-15 3:51am

Salman622

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CHill60 23-Feb-15 9:54am

We can't see your screen, examine your HDD or read your mind. Post the code that you are using to read this data

Salman622 23-Feb-15 9:59am

below is the code for read data
string SourceConstr = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + OtherPath.Text + ";Extended Properties= 'Excel 12.0;'";
OleDbConnection con1 = new OleDbConnection(SourceConstr);
con1.Open();
string query = "Select * from [" + OtherSheet.Text + "$]";
DataTable exceltable = new DataTable();
OleDbDataAdapter data = new OleDbDataAdapter(query, con1);
data.Fill(exceltable);
con1.Close();

Its Reading Data PRoper but the problem comes at date column
as i have given example above

ZurdoDev 23-Feb-15 9:59am

Why is it doing that?

Salman622 23-Feb-15 10:02am

no idea...

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-02-23T04:06:00

Start by looking at the data source: the most likely reason is "finger trouble" from the user when he input the date.
That looks like a string based date representation, rather than a date based item. So read them, then loop through and see if any of them fail a TryParseExact("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm tt", ... If they do, that's the problem.