using System; using System.Globalization; public class Test { public static void Main() { var dateToConvert = "Wed Oct 02 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)"; var format = "ddd MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'zzz '(GMT Daylight Time)'"; var date = DateTime.ParseExact(dateToConvert, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); Console.WriteLine (date); } }