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 *  Utilities.cs
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 *  Copyright (C) 2005 Novell
 *  Written by Aaron Bockover (aaron@aaronbock.net)
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using System;

namespace MusicBrainz
{
    public class Utilities
    {
        public static DateTime StringToDateTime(string musicBrainzDate)
        {
            if(musicBrainzDate == null || musicBrainzDate == String.Empty) {
                return DateTime.MinValue;
            }
            
            // because the DateTime parser is *slow*
            
            string [] parts = musicBrainzDate.Split('-');
            
            if(parts.Length < 3) {
                return DateTime.MinValue;
            }
            
            try {
                return new DateTime(
                    Convert.ToInt32(parts[0]), // year
                    Convert.ToInt32(parts[1]), // month
                    Convert.ToInt32(parts[2])  // day
                ); 
            } catch(Exception) {
                return DateTime.MinValue;
            }
        }
    }
}

Convert a MusicBrainz date into a DateTime object
Convert a MusicBrainz date into a DateTime object

* src/MusicBrainz/Utilities.cs (StringToDateTime): Convert a MusicBrainz
    date into a DateTime object
