title: Why does AD3AD08 represent a valid date in the .NET framework?
body: <pre><code>DateTime.Parse("AD3AD08")
  
  [2017-08-03 12:00:00 AM]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why does that string (which looks like just a normal hex string to me) get parsed successfully as a date? I can see the 3 and the 8 get parsed as months and days. But otherwise it doesn't make sense to me.</p>