How to Extract Year component from DateTime and Convert to String for Concatenation

Question

I need help please.
Can someone point me to what I am doing wrong in my code below in C#

string year = DateTime.Parse(DateTime.Now.ToString()).Year.ToString();

this code above works.

Why is the code below not working. I want to extract the year out of the DateTime Model(result.PolicyData.CommenceDate)

string year = DateTime.Parse(result.PolicyData.CommenceDate.Value.Year.ToString()).Year.ToString();

the error message is : String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

Thank you in anticipation of your quick response.

Best regards

Lawrence

Answer 1

This line of code resolved the issue.

 var year = result.PolicyData.CommenceDate.Value.Year.ToString();