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Posted on by Davide Cerqua

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Hi all,

today i am writing an API that should receive a datetime format

public DateTime? DateOfBirth
{
get { return this.GetPropertyValue<DateTime?>("xxxx_dateofbirth"); }
set { this.SetPropertyValue<DateTime?>("xxxx_dateofbirth", value); }
}

and create a request.

That request has to be in string format. So i need to create the request by using the datetime value to string converted.

I tried

request.DateOfBirth = Convert.ToString(DemographicsModification.DateOfBirth);

and also

request.DateOfBirth = DemographicsModification.DateOfBirth.ToString();

but i have always an exception error debugging, it says DateOfBirth value is not correct

There are some other ways to make it?

Thank you a lot

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a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello,

What are types of DemographicsModification.DateOfBirth and request.DateOfBirth?

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DemographicsModification.DateOfBirth (DateTime)

request.DateOfBirth (String)

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a33ik 84,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Ok. In that case request.DateOfBirth = DemographicsModification.DateOfBirth.ToString(); should work fine. Let's make next step what line of code raises an exception? Would be great to see full code you use and exception message/callstack e.t.c.

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try

DateTime dob = Convert.ToDateTime("xxxx_dateofbirth");

assign dob to the field.

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As I'm sure you're aware dates are expressed differently in strings in different regions which is why the 'ticks' format is often used as its a whole number and invariant across cultures.

Another invariant format would be the ISO8601 format e.g. 2007-04-05 which is pretty easy to format as a string.

Perhaps you should consider using this format?

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Hello everyone,

i solved this error so i am going to write my solution, maybe it will help someone else :)

request.DateOfBirth = string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}",

DateModification.DateOfBirth.GetValueOrDefault().Year.ToString(),

DateModification.DateOfBirth.GetValueOrDefault().Month.ToString(),

DateModification.DateOfBirth.GetValueOrDefault().Day.ToString()

ChrisC you were right, infact i changed date format using -

Thank you very much!

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