using System;

using System.Linq;

using System.Globalization;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        Console.WriteLine("Default culture: " + CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);

        Console.WriteLine("Parsed '01-08-2014' using default culture  = " + DateTime.Parse("01-08-2014").ToString("u"));

        Console.WriteLine("Parsed '01-08-2014' using UK-specific culture = " + ToDate("01-08-2014").ToString("u"));

    }

    public static DateTime ToDate(object readField)

    {

        DateTime dt = DateTime.MinValue;

        if ((readField != null))

        {

            readField = readField.ToString().Replace("/", "-");

            System.Globalization.CultureInfo ukCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-IN");

                Console.WriteLine("Short hand format  = " + ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern + " " + ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.LongTimePattern);

            Console.WriteLine("ShortestDayNames  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortestDayNames));

                    Console.WriteLine("DayNames  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.DayNames));

                        Console.WriteLine("AbbreviatedMonthNames  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.AbbreviatedMonthNames));

                        Console.WriteLine("MonthNames  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames));

                    Console.WriteLine("AMDesignator  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.AMDesignator));

                    Console.WriteLine("PMDesignator  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.PMDesignator));

                Console.WriteLine("TimeSeparator  = " + string.Join(" , ", ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.TimeSeparator));

                Console.WriteLine("DateSeparator  = " + ukCulture.DateTimeFormat.DateSeparator );

                string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(ukCulture.DateTimeFormat);

        Console.WriteLine("DateTimeFormat  = " +json);

            json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(ukCulture.NumberFormat);

        Console.WriteLine("NumberFormat  = " +json);

            if (DateTime.TryParseExact(readField.ToString(), new string[] { "dd-MM-yy hh:mm:ss", "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss", "dd-MM-yyyy", "d-M-yyyy", "d-M-yyyy h:mm:ss tt", "d-M-yyyy H:mm", "d-M-yyyy hh:mm tt" }, ukCulture.DateTimeFormat, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out dt))

            {

                return dt;

            }

        }

        return dt;

    }

}