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Today I wanted to convert a month name such as January into it’s Integer value in order to easily compare it in my C# code. Initially I decided to map all month names in a Dictionary in order to get the int value of each month, but later I found an easier and probably more reliable solution.

int month = DateTime.Parse("January" + " 01, 1900").Month

This method makes it pretty easy to convert a month string into a number.