{"id":31650,"date":"2018-04-21T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ampscript.guide\/stringtodate\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T00:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:58:53","slug":"stringtodate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampscript.guide\/stringtodate\/","title":{"rendered":"StringToDate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>StringToDate<\/h2>\n<p>This function parses the specified date string and returns a .NET DateTime object.<\/p>\n<h3>Arguments<\/h3>\n<p><code>StringToDate(1,2)<\/code><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center\">Ordinal<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Type<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Required<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left\">Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">String<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">True<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">Date string to parse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">String<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">False<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left\">Optional .NET character-encoding type to utilize in encoding.  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