parsing - c# parse datetime "Fri Jan 14 2011 14:56:36 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"

Question

I'm doing

 DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(stringDate, "ddd MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss UTCzzzzz zzzz", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

But, that is generating an error (the error was that date was not in the correct format). Do you guys know what the correct syntax is?

The date is:

Fri Jan 14 2011 15:00:39 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Answer 1

This seems to work if you strip the end of the string.

var stringDate = "Fri Jan 14 2011 15:00:39 GMT-0800";
var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(
        stringDate,
        "ddd MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'zzz",
        System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);