Why can’t DateTime.ParseExact() parse “9/1/2009” using “M/d/yyyy”

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I suspect the problem is the slashes in the format string versus the ones in the data. That’s a culture-sensitive date separator character in the format string, and the final argument being null means “use the current culture”. If you either escape the slashes (“M”https://stackoverflow.com/”d”https://stackoverflow.com/”yyyy”) or you specify CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, it will be okay.

If anyone’s interested in reproducing this:

// Works
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("9/1/2009", "M"https://stackoverflow.com/"d"https://stackoverflow.com/"yyyy", 
                                  new CultureInfo("de-DE"));

// Works
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("9/1/2009", "M/d/yyyy", 
                                  new CultureInfo("en-US"));

// Works
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("9/1/2009", "M/d/yyyy", 
                                  CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

// Fails
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("9/1/2009", "M/d/yyyy", 
                                  new CultureInfo("de-DE"));

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