I have a C# Visual Studio web application that uses Telerik RadTimePickers to collect the start time and end times, formatted as 24 hour time. These two elements get stored in the database as a string formatted as 09:00:00-09:30:00.

Now when the application retrieves the data from the database I need to convert that string into 2 separate times, in the 24 hour format, so I can use those values as the Selected Time for the RadTimePickers.

I use the code below to extract the two dates from the string;

```
if (Results.TimeOfDay != "-" || Results.TimeOfDay != null)
                    {                        
                            string[] times = Results.TimeOfDay.Split('-');
                            string time1 = times[0];
                            RadTimePicker1.SelectedTime = ParseTime(time1);
                            string time2 = times[1];
                            RadTimePicker2.SelectedTime = ParseTime(time2);
                    }

```

The Code for ParseTime looks like this:

```
 static public TimeSpan ParseTime(string input)
    {
        TimeSpan output;
        var ok = TimeSpan.TryParseExact(input, @"hh\:mm\:tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,out output);
        return output;
    }

```

But it is not working, the var ok value returns false and the output value is 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM.
New to C# and cannot figure out how to fix this problem. Can someone help please

Based on comments I changed the code to parse to this

```
     static public TimeSpan ParseTime(string input)
    {
        TimeSpan output;
        var ok = TimeSpan.TryParseExact(input, @"hh\:mm\:tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,out output);
        return output;
    }

```