Q:

Format from ticks to date

I am needing to transfer some logs which were timestamped in ticks to an XML document. I would prefer the timestamps to be more Specific such as "July 14, 2009 10:18:04 pm"
I was planning to using something along the line of:
DateTime logDate = DateTime.Parse(logText);
logDate.ToString("MMM dd yyyy hh:mm:ss tt");

I figured this would be OK as DateTime.Now.Ticks is how you can get ticks. It is however returning that it is not a proper DateTime format. during setting logDate.
I am sure there is a simple solution but I just can't come across it.

A:

If logText is a string, you can convert it to long (Int64) and use this constructor: 
DateTime date = new DateTime(long.Parse(logText));

