[Mono-dev] DateTime.Parse difference with .NET

[Alfredo Jose Muela Romero]

El Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:01:32 +0900
Atsushi Eno <atsushi at ximian.com> escribió:

> Hi,
> 
> Now that it turned out that the bug is not reproducible with
> the latest svn HEAD (i.e. the bug report is invalid)...

	Which bug? Did I talk to any bug? :-S If I did so I didn't mean
it, I just wanted to ask a doubt...

> Alfredo Jose Muela Romero wrote:
> > 	Hello,
> > 
> > El Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:30:19 +0900
> > Atsushi Eno <atsushi at ximian.com> escribió:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 	[...] 
> >  
> > 
> >>In fact using DateTime.Parse() is somewhat stupid ;-) Read
> >>here:
> >>
> >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/03/CultureInfo/d
> >efault >.aspx?side=true#a
> >>
> >>	The DateTime.Parse method in the Microsoft .NET Framework
> >>	has goals much like its predecessors, but unfortunately
> >>	it suffers from some of the same problems. The code is
> >>	slower since the extra checking takes time, and there
> >>	will always be some new format that is not properly
> >>	detected. In those older products, you may remember, the
> >>	behavior was sometimes disparagingly referred to as "evil
> >>	date parsing."
> >>
> >>At least DateTime.Parse() is COM dependent where the behavior
> >>is totally unpredictable and not countable from
> >>DateTimeFormatInfo.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 	But in [1] we find that format string we need to specify
> > 	as a
> > valid format (see Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo) it is
> > unfinished :-S
> 
> If we have corresponding format string, it is likely to work
> like this case.

	I guess I didn't understand the "unfinished concept" or your
answer... In other words... even if there are unfinished members
on a class, and consecuently the class is marked as unfinished,
is still the class usable? (I thought I couldn't...)

> > 	May be I lost something... what do you suggest to use
> > 	instead of
> > DateTime.Parse() or DateTime.ParseExact()?
> 
> I don't understand why we need to find something "instead of
> DateTime.ParseExact()". Just use it.

	So, should I use a string specify for myself (such as
"dd/MM/yyyy H:mm*:ss*") for the format?


		Alfredo.


PS Thanks a lot for your time.