.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library

Example

using System;
using System.Globalization;
namespace Samples
{
  public class DateTimeStylesSample
  {
    public static void Main()
    {
      IFormatProvider f = new CultureInfo("en-AU", true);
      string s = String.Format("\t  {0}  ",
                     DateTime.Now.ToString(f));
      DateTime d = DateTime.Parse(s, f,
                   DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);
      Console.WriteLine("String: {0} yields date {1}", s, d);
      d = DateTime.Parse(s, f,
                   DateTimeStyles.AllowLeadingWhite |
                   DateTimeStyles.AllowInnerWhite |
                   DateTimeStyles.AllowTrailingWhite);
      Console.WriteLine("String: {0} yields date {1}", s, d);
      s = String.Format("  {0}  \t",
                     DateTime.Now.ToString("T", f));
      d = DateTime.Parse(s, f,
                   DateTimeStyles.NoCurrentDateDefault);
      Console.WriteLine("String: {0} yields date {1}", s, d);
    }
  }
}

The output ...