title: Parsing DateTime
body: <p>How would one parse 1900-01-01 00:00:00Z into a DateTime object?</p>
  
  <pre><code>        string temp = "1900-01-01 00:00:00Z";
          CultureInfo provider = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
          var date = DateTime.ParseExact(temp, "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ssZ", provider);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this returns me:</p>
  
  <p>12/31/1899 7:00:00 PM</p>