Getting Error While Converting Datatime And Error Is Datetime Is Not Valid And I Want Date In 2014/12/10 4:39 Pm This Format

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string s = Convert.ToDateTime(fl.CreationTime).ToString();

             flist.UploadDate = DateTime.ParseExact(s, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm tt", null).ToString();

i want date in 2014/12/10 4:39 PM this format

Posted 9-Sep-14 20:46pm

sanjaysgh

Updated 9-Sep-14 21:14pm

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Thanks7872 10-Sep-14 2:50am

How fl.CreationTime looks like and what is the explected output?

RAHUL(10217975) 10-Sep-14 3:04am

Can you tell what is the value of fl.CreationTime ?

george4986 10-Sep-14 3:45am

'flist.UploadDate' declared as string/datetime?
try this
string s = Convert.ToDateTime(fl.CreationTime).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd h:mm tt").Replace('-', '/');

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-09-09T21:07:00

There are a number of things here:
fl.CreationTime looks like a FileSystemInfo.CreationTime or a FileInfo.CreationTime - which is a DateTime already, so you don;t need to convert it:
So...

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string s = Convert.ToDateTime(fl.CreationTime).ToString();

Can be just:

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string s = fl.CreationTime.ToString();

Secondly, the default ToString for a DateTime is to use the current system settings - which is very, very unlikely to be in ISO format. So the string you generate will be along the lines of

15/02/2001 17:45

which will not match the format string you are telling ParseExact to expect. So ParseExact will fail, and throw an exception. Yo could provide a parameter to ToString to generate the correct format: Formatting a DateTime for display - format string description[^]...

But...why are you parsing the damn string anyway?
Why not just use the original DateTime that you started with?

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flist.UploadDate = fl.CreationTime;

should be all you need...