How to get DateTime from ISO 8601 string?

Unity Engine
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In my server, my dates are saved as a string in the ISO 8601 format. Example “2018-04-11T05:59:19.000Z”

How would I convert this string to a DateTime in c#?

2

For things like this I would just google it.

“iso 8601 to datetime c#”

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3556144/how-to-create-a-net-datetime-from-iso-8601-format/17752389

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I actually did and tried the top answer on that very post (including the suggested amendment on the top answer) and found that I get errors.

    public void TestConversion1 () {
        string exampleDateISO = "2018-04-11T05:59:19.000Z";
        DateTime dateFromISO = DateTime.Parse(exampleDateISO, null, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.RoundtripKind);
        print(dateFromISO.ToLongTimeString());
    }

    public void TestConversion2 () {
        string exampleDateISO = "2018-04-11T05:59:19.000Z";
        DateTime dateFromISO = DateTime.Parse(exampleDateISO, null, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.RoundtripKind);
        print(dateFromISO.ToLongTimeString());
    }

I notice that my string has some extra digits but not exactly sure what I’m supposed to adapt to get the conversion to work? Thanks for your time!

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Use a regex to format the string in a way that DateTime.Parse will accept. Or use a regex to just parse the whole thing yourself. If you’ve never used regular expressions, the topic is too big to teach in a forum response, but there are plenty of websites that teach them.