What is the point of Convert.ToDateTime(bool)?

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Published on 2010-04-22T09:24:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 9:33 UTC
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I was doing some type conversion routines last night for a system I am working on. One of the conversions involves turning string values into their DateTime equivalents.

While doing this, I noticed that the Convert.ToDateTime() method had an overload which accepted a boolean parameter.

First question? Under what circumstances could this ever be useful?

I went a little further and tried to execute the method in QuickWatch. Either way ( true or false ), the routine returns an InvalidCastException.

Second question? Why is this method even here?

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