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Use custom formats with M and MM to parse a string to Date

 
Imports System.Globalization

Class MainClass
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim enUS As New CultureInfo("en-US")
        Dim dateString As String
        Dim dateValue As Date

        dateString = "5/01/2009 09:00"
        Try
            dateValue = Date.ParseExact(dateString, "M/dd/yyyy hh:mm", enUS, DateTimeStyles.None)
            Console.WriteLine(dateValue)
        Catch e As FormatException
            Console.WriteLine("'{0}' is not in an acceptable format.", dateString)
        End Try

    End Sub
End Class








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