Getting error while parsing string to datetime?

Getting error while parsing string to datetime. 

string datestring = "111815";
DateTime date = Convert.ToDateTime(datestring);

I also tried using, Parse, ExactParse with/without culture specificinfo.

I'm still getting the error:

String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

Please suggest the correct solution.

Jon Skeet
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You just need to specify the right format string when you call ParseExact. In your case, it looks like this is month-day-year, without any separators, and with a 2-digit year (blech). So you'd parse it like this:

using System;
using System.Globalization;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("111815", "MMddyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        Console.WriteLine(dt);
    }
}

If you're in control of the format at all, I'd strongly recommend yyyy-MM-dd instead of this ambiguous (due to the 2-digit years) and US-centric (due to month/day/year) format.

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