How to cast this date and save to database

08:15:16 April 1, 2010 PDT I need to save this to DateTime in MSSQL database but I can't convert this in C#. Can s开发者_JAVA百科omebody help me to cast it? And what the hell is 'PDT'?

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This post is related to Parse DateTime with time zone of form PST/CEST/UTC/etc

I'm not sure how to get from alpha timezone to numeric, but after you do that you can

DateTime myDate = Convert.ToDateTime("Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:52:56-07:00");

Update: This link apparently contains code to do the "PDT" to GMT offset conversion. http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/214648-how-do-i-parse-date-w-time-zone Also check out the TimeZoneInfo class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.aspx

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The code in this post seems to work fine: http://www.codeillustrator.com/2010/03/converting-paypal-paymentdate-to-net.html

using System;
using System.Globalization;

public static class PayPalTransaction
{
    public static DateTime ConvertPayPalDateTime(string payPalDateTime)
    {
    // accept a few different date formats because of PST/PDT timezone and slight month difference in sandbox vs. prod.
        string[] dateFormats = { "HH:mm:ss MMM dd, yyyy PST", "HH:mm:ss MMM. dd, yyyy PST", "HH:mm:ss MMM dd, yyyy PDT", "HH:mm:ss MMM. dd, yyyy PDT" };
        DateTime outputDateTime;

        DateTime.TryParseExact(payPalDateTime, dateFormats, new CultureInfo("en-US"), DateTimeStyles.None, out outputDateTime);

        // convert to local timezone
        outputDateTime = outputDateTime.AddHours(3);

        return outputDateTime;
    }
}

(answer cross-posted for this similar question: How do I convert Paypal's HH:MM:SS DD Mmm(.) YYYY PST/PDT to a C# UTC DateTime?)