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0313 Parse a string to DateTime

To illustrate, suppose we generate a culture-insensitive DateTime string s as follows: using System; using System.Text; using System.Globalization; class Sample { public static void Main() { string s = DateTime.Now.ToString("o"); Console.WriteLine(s); DateTime dt1 = DateTime.ParseExact(s, "o", null); Console.WriteLine(dt1); } } The output: 2010-12-15T13:09:49.7744687-08:00 12/15/2010 1:09:49 PM