Parsing DateTimes

[PendelinP]

It would be great to have a helper method to parse a DateTime value field in the following format "YYYY[MM[DD[HH[MM[SS[.S[S[S[S]]]]]]]]][+/-ZZZZ]".

See documentation: http://www.hl7.eu/refactored/dtDTM.html

[jaime-olivares]

Hi @PendelinP,
I understand your requirement, but the proposed PR doesn't seem to cover many cases, like these:

• Date with decimal point
• Date with intermediate digits of sub-seconds (different than 2 or 5)
• Date with time-zone sign and digits
• Combinations sub-seconds and time-zone digits

I will use another approach using regex and publish soon.

[Aaron-P]

I've done something sort of similar if it would be helpful.

DTM.txt

[jaime-olivares]

Already implemented a new method and added a big bunch of unit tests. There is a second method that returns also time-zone offset.

See nuget package 2.14

[PendelinP]

Awesome! Thanks a lot ;)