The String Was Not Recognized As A Valid DateTime. There Is A Unknown Word Starting At Index 0.

Hi,

I got this error report "The string was not recognized as a valid DateTime. There is a unknown word starting at index 0." at this line of code in BOLD.

For some reasons the datetime format in the database has the (US datetime format - 05/02/2008 06:40 instead of United Kingdom (UK date time format - 02/05/2008 06:40), as I had planned. I have tried to reformat the database and VB date format and all to no success.Could this be the root of my problems?










Code Snippet
Public Class Form1

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

If con.State = ConnectionState.Open Then con.Close()
con.Open()
cmd = New SqlCommand("SELECT REM_NOTE, REM_DATE FROM dbo.MY_CONTACTS", con)


Dim sdr As SqlDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader
While sdr.HasRows = True

Dim newAlert As New Alert(Reminder_data_reader("REM_NOTE").ToString(), DateTime.Parse(Reminder_data_reader("REM_DATE").ToString()))
Me.collectionOfAlerts.Add(newAlert)


End If
End While
sdr.Close()
con.Close()

End Sub




End Class