String was not recognized as a valid date - VB.NET - vb.net

In my SSIS project I have a date variable of type [DT_DATE]
I'm trying to convert rows which contains a string (a date and a time)
The format of the string looks like this: 20151107 19:32:23
I want to convert this into a datetime format before I insert it into my db.
My script looks like this:
Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow(ByVal Row As Input0Buffer)
Dim tempDate As String = Row.calldate
Row.newcalldate = Date.ParseExact(tempDate, "yyyyMMdd hh:mm:ss", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)
End Sub
I end up with the error: String was not recognized as a valid date
Any help would be much appreciated

In the format string hh stands for the hour using a 12-hour clock from 01 to 12.
So if you want to parse a time expressed in 24-hour clock you need to use HH
Row.newcalldate = Date.ParseExact(tempDate, "yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)

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VB.NET: Convert a date dd/mm/yy to dd/mm/yyyy

I need to convert a dd/mm/yy date to dd/mm/yyyy automatically.
Example: if I insert in the textbox "12/01/90", the program should automatically convert the text to "12/01/1990" or "01/01/20" to "01/01/2020".
Also, I should check the date to make sure it is correct.
Example: if I enter "80/70/2000" it must give me an error because the date does not exist. How can I do? Thanks in advance.
If you have the input as a string, you would first parse it into a date with the format specifier, and then convert it back into a string.
Dim input as String = "22/03/19" ' dd/mm/yy
Dim dt as DateTime = DateTime.MinValue
If (DateTime.TryParseExact(input,
"dd/MM/yy",
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None,
dt
)) Then
Dim output as String = dt.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")
Console.WriteLine(output)
else
Console.WriteLine("Error")
end if
Output:
22/03/2019
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Convert string to date with format (VB.net)

I have a string with a date in this format. "24-11-2015" or "dd-MM-yyyy". I need to convert this to a date with this format. "2015-11-24" or "yyyy-MM-dd".
I've tried several ways, and all of them rely on my system format for this to work. If i run my program on a computer with english time format this works.
Date.ParseExact("24-11-2015", "dd-MM-yyyy", System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo)
But if i run it on a computer running danish format i get error because there is no 24th month. How do i make the date format independent of my system time format.
Solution:
Dim dateTime As String = "24-11-2015"
Dim dt As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(dateTime)
Console.WriteLine("{0}-{1}-{2}", dt.Year, dt.Month.ToString("D2"), dt.Day.ToString("D2"))
Solution 2:
Dim dateTime As String = "24-11-2015"
Dim dt As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(dateTime)
Dim format As String = "yyyy-MM-dd"
Dim str As String = dt.ToString(format)
Console.WriteLine(str)
You can also try Formatting Date and Time for a Specific Culture.

not able to convert string date format in vb.net

I'm taking date from my csv file
Dim odateq As String = sData(0).Trim()
I am getting odateq as 9/15/2015
I want to convert this to 15/9/2015. So I wrote code like this
Dim newdate As DateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(odateq, "dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
And I'm getting an error like this :
String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
any help is very appreciable...thanks
the code you wrote is using the wrong format; the date you have is in the format M/d/yyyy (month and day without leading zero are a guess because you did not specify it).
try with this one:
Dim newdate As DateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(odateq, "M/d/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
the format you set in the ParseExact was telling the function to expect a date in the format dd/MM/yyyy like 01/05/2015 but what you have is not in that format.
after you parse the input date, to get a string with format dd/MM/yyyy use:
Dim dateAsText As String = newdate.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")

How translate string to date in .NET

I followed suggestion from vb.net convert string to date . But, it did not work.
the code is as follows:
Dim Dt As DateTime
If DateTime.TryParse("Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:03:24 EST", Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, Dt) Then
MessageBox.Show(Dt)
End If
Can anyone solve this for me? I need to have date populated in the format of "yyyy-mm-dd hh24-mi-ss".
this should get you on the right path:
Dim dt As DateTime
dt = Now
TextBox1.Text = Format(dt, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
NOTE: this answer was written for a previous revision of the question which had the following code:
Dim Dt As DateTime
If DateTime.TryParseExact("Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:03:24 EST", "dd.MM.yyyy", Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, Dt) Then
MessageBox.Show(Dt)
End If
The format string that TryParseExact takes as it's second parameter specifies the format of the date in the string passed as the first.
In your case the format string is specifying that the date will be of the format "09.12.2010" for example - just the day, moth and year. However, as the string isn't in that format it won't parse. If you'd just used ParseExact it would have raised an exception.
The MSDN page for the variant of TryParseExact that takes an array of possible format strings has more examples, but non match your format exactly, but working with the format strings used to convert DateTime to string you probably want something like this:
"ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ???"
but I can't find what you'd need instead of "???" to match the "time zone as string". You might have to do some string manipulation to remove this before calling TryParse or TryParseExact.
You will have to replace the timezone with the timezone offset.
Same question as Parse DateTime with time zone of form PST/CEST/UTC/etc
TextBox1.Text = System.DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(698).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");
DateTime DOB;
string[] formatsDOB = { "dd/MM/yyyy", "MM/dd/yyyy" };
DateTime.TryParseExact(txtDateofBirth.Text, formatsDOB, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out DOB);

How to get a date field from MM/dd/yyyy to yyyy/MM/dd in vb.net

I need to get a date field from MM/dd/yyyy to yyyy/MM/dd in vb.net but it should still be a date field afterward so that I can match it against a date in a database.
At the moment all I'm managing to do is to change it to a string in that format.
I tried this type of code which also did not work.
DateTime.Parse(yourDataAsAString).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")
fromDeString = String.Format("{0:yyyy/MM/dd}", aDate)
fromDate = Format("{0:yyyy/MM/dd}", aDate)
Any help would be much apreciated, thanks
You're not understanding that a date object does not store the digits in any particular format. The only way to get the digits formatted in the order you want is to convert it to a string. Why do you need to compare them in a particular format? A date is a date no matter how it is formatted. 12/15/78 == 1978/12/15.
If you are not able to compare dates from the DB against a date object in VB, it is likely that the date you are comparing to in the database is being returned to you in string format, in which case you should covert it to a date object for comparison.
Dim sDate As String = "2009/12/15" 'Get the date from the database and store it as a string
Dim dDate As New Date(2009, 12, 15) 'Your date object, set to whatever date you want to compare against
Select Case Date.Compare(dDate, Date.Parse(sDate))
Case 0
'The dates are equal
Case Is > 0
'The date in the database is less
Case Is < 0
'The date in the database is greater
End Select
Here's a sample module demonstrating the functionality you desire.
Imports System.Globalization
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim culture As New CultureInfo("en-us", True)
Dim mmDDyy As String = "10/23/2009"
Dim realDate As Date = Date.ParseExact(mmDDyy, "mm/dd/yyyy", culture)
Dim yyMMdd As String = realDate.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd")
End Sub
End Module
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Noel
Your second should actually work. Instead just try:
dim chislo as date = date.now dim message As String = $"
Today`s Date: {String.Format("{0:dddd, dd/MM/yyyy}", Chislo)} "
MsgBox(message)