C# Convert a string "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss 'UTC'" to date time

June 20, 2022

i have a string, as an example:
"2022-04-17 14:46:31 UTC"

And i want to convert it to date time but i have got the following error:
{"The string ‘2022-04-17 14:46:31 UTC’ was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is an unknown word starting at index ’20’."}

Notice that i have tried:

var date = DateTime.Parse("2022-04-17 14:46:31 UTC")

2.DateTime dt; DateTime.TryParseExact("2022-04-17 14:46:31 UTC", "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss 'UTC'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt)

>Solution :

There are two things to be done:

as mentioned in the comments: use HH for the 24 hour format
adjust the result to an actual UTC time

DateTime.TryParseExact("2022-04-17 14:46:31 UTC", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss 'UTC'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);
DateTime utc = new DateTime(dt.Ticks,  DateTimeKind.Utc);