The Old IFormatProvider Trick

[RVRoman]

I need to have a date constant available in my strategy, for example,

private DateTime MyDate = DateTime.Parse( "31/08/08" );

My PC is set for the day/month/year format which is used by DateTime.Parse. When I send my strategy to someone in the US where month/day/year is used, the parsing fails.

There is an optional parameter to Parse which is IFormatProvider provider. I'm certain that this is how I could force use of my date format regardless of the local convention. However I have been unable to find any documentation or examples of IFormatProvider.

Could someone suggest a link to some documentation or prvide an example?

Thanks,

RVRoman

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Couldn't you just use:
private DateTime myDate = new DateTime(2008,3,31);

[RVRoman]

Indeed You Can

Josh,

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. I missed the whole "new" thing. I entered DateTime( ... and got nothing. Once I entered new DateTime( ... I got the world and I'm away laughing.

Cheers,

RVRoman

PS: Should I do something to delete my thread when I've received a satisfactory answer? Or perhaps I should leave it there for other unfortunates.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

Leaving it for others to search would be great. Glad you got it resolved. Cheers.