Exporting Historical Data (Date Format Issue)

[zwentz]

When I export my historical data, the date value is in this format:

20090401 000100

C# cannot parse this through:

DateTime.parse("20090401 000100");

My question is, is there a way to edit the format in which it outputs the date? If not, do any of you know of a workaround to get the date string into the correct format?

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hello Zwentz,

Thank you for your post.

Unfortunately, there is no way to change this output format. Likewise, I am not aware of any automated way to change this portion of the file.

[zwentz]

You just have to use:

DateTime.ParseExact("20090401 00100");

And it works.

[NinjaTrader_JoshP]

zwentz,

Maybe there is some misunderstanding here. Exporting historical data exports a text file. Text files contain just numbers. Numbers are not DateTime objects as seen in C#.

If you want to create a DateTime out of those numbers you need to just create the object in a manner acceptable.

DateTime someVar = new DateTime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second)

You will need to parse the string yourself.