DateTime.Parse error

Question

Can anyone help?

I have a function that checks to see if a string passed is a date with the string "4AD2182"

DateTime.Parse("4AD2182") returns the following Result:

    {4/1/2182 12:00:00 AM}
    Date: {4/1/2182 12:00:00 AM}
    Day: 1
    DayOfWeek: Monday
    DayOfYear: 91
    Hour: 0
    Kind: Unspecified
    Millisecond: 0
    Minute: 0
    Month: 4
    Second: 0
    Ticks: 688334976000000000
    TimeOfDay: {00:00:00}
    Year: 2182

Is this a bug?

Thanks!

####### Code #########

public

{

static bool IsDate(object obj)//Determine if value is a Date data type

string strDate = obj.ToString();try

{

}

DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(strDate);if (dt != DateTime.MinValue && dt != DateTime.MaxValue)return true;return false;catch

{

}

return false;

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Vulpes · Answer

I don't think it's a bug because you can use the g specifier when formatting DateTime values to represent the period or era (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx ). So: DateTime dt = new DateTime(2182 4 1); string s = dt.ToString(Mgyyyy); // 4A.D.2182 Parsing with dots after the A and D also works but it's certainly a strange one :)