using System; using System.Globalization; public class Test { public static void Main() { string messageReceiptDate = "2014-02-03T19:00:00"; String MessageRecieptDate = messageReceiptDate.Replace("T", " ").Remove(messageReceiptDate.Length - 3); IFormatProvider culture = new CultureInfo("en-US"); DateTime dt = new DateTime(); dt = DateTime.ParseExact(MessageRecieptDate, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm", culture); Console.WriteLine(dt); } }