'Convert DateTime 1/20/2022 8:48:30 PM to 20/01/2022 8:48:30 PM C#

I basically have two DateTime variables

 DateTime dateToday = WorldTimeAPI.Instance.GetCurrentDateTime();       
 DateTime dateFinish;

dateToday gets current date from the web, with this format 1/20/2022 8:48:30 PM. dateFinish has this other format 20/01/2022 8:48:30 PM, the day first, and then the month, everything else is the same. I want to be able to parse one of them to match the other one in terms of format so that I can compare them both to know if todays date is greater than date finish by doing this:

if(dateToday.CompareTo(dateToEndMission) > 0)
{do stuff}

I tried looking at documentation but it has so many different formats that I just couldnt figure out the exact way to do it.

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Solution 1:[1]

To compare two dateTime values in an if statement you can do:

if(firstDate.Date > secondDate.Date)
{
  //Do something...
}

Solution 2:[2]

Try and keep things as simple as possible.

As stated above you can compare date time with the > operator. But I would go further and ask why you're using that api to get the current date and time when you could just use this

DateTime today = DateTime.Now;

This should fix your problem, because you should be initialising date time in the same way now. If not, then I suggest you take a look at this other questions answers:

Convert DateTime to a specified Format

Solution 3:[3]

You can try the ParseExact method

DateTime dateToday = DateTime.Now;
DateTime dateFinish = DateTime.ParseExact("20/01/2022 10:56:09", "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
if (dateToday > dateFinish)
{
    // do something
}

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Raoul Montella
Solution 2 Trevor Baker
Solution 3 SaniaGhafur009

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