By default date understand mm/dd/yyyy format. You can parse string date into dd/mm/yyyy using different options.

Introduction

In this article we will see the options to change string date in dd/mm/yyyy format into DateTime. If you try to convert a date in dd/mm/yyyy (say 17/03/2020), it will throw exception "FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime". To overcome, follow anyone from below methods.

Converting string format (dd/mm/yyyy) into Date

Use anyone of below method and you are done.

void ConvertDate(string date)
 {
 if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(date))
 {
 string[] splittedDate = date.Split('/');
 DateTime date1 = new DateTime(Convert.ToInt32(splittedDate[2]), 
 Convert.ToInt32(splittedDate[1]), Convert.ToInt32(splittedDate[0]));

DateTime date2 = Convert.ToDateTime(date, 
 System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("hi-IN").DateTimeFormat);

DateTime date3 = DateTime.ParseExact(date, @"d/M/yyyy",
 System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

DateTime date4;
 bool isSuccess = DateTime.TryParse(date, out date4);
 }
 }

Hope this helps you.