DateTime.ParseExact - "day of week was incorrect" exception!!

Greetings,

Perhaps this is a bug with DateTime.ParseExact()?

Input:
SUNDAYSEPTEMBER271:00PMET

Code:
prediction.TimeOfGame = DateTime.ParseExact((_date + timeOfGameNoCommasOrSpaces).ToUpper(),
"ddddMMMMdh:mmttET",
null);

Returns:
System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime because the day of week was incorrect.


I'd like to report this, perhaps someone knows the reason for the exception?

Thanks,
Tom

Hi embalism,

You may want to look at the following things...

1. It looks like you haven't specified the year in the format string. I assume the year is 1971 going by the process of elimination. I might be wrong of course. But I think you need to specify the year if you want to create a valid date time.

2. Secondly once you do specify the year, the numbers have to correspond to a real date in the calendar. For example if you want to create 2nd of September 1971 that date was a Thursday and not a Sunday.

3. Thirdly I would probably change the spelling of "SUNDAY" to "Sunday" to match the DaysOfWeek enumeration. The comparison might be case sensitive (I doubt it though...)

Hi,

Ignore point #3. The case doesn't seem to matter. This worked for me...

Code:

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var date = DateTime.Format("THURSDAYSeptember02711:00PM", "ddddMMMMddyyh:mmtt", null);

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