DateTime format for 9/14/2016 19:31 - datetime

I am doing an F# course by Richard Broida. In one lecture I am supposed to parse a CSV document. Everything works fine except for parsing datetime. My local culture settings are Slovak (sk-SK) and I am trying to parse the following datetime string:
9/14/2016 19:31
I have read through the CSV file and found out that months, days and hours can all have both one or two digits. Years always have 4 digits and minutes always have 2 digits. So, the datetime 10/7/2016 9:01 is also a valid one.
I have created an adapter function:
let dateTimeParseAdapter format provider date =
DateTime.ParseExact(date, format, provider)
and then called
dateTimeParseAdapter "M/d/yyyy h:mm" CultureInfo.InvariantCulture "9/14/2016 19:31"
but I got an exception message saying
System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
I tried adjusting the format string to exactly match the number of digits in my single date. However, even the following code resulted in the same error message.
dateTimeParseAdapter "M/dd/yyyy hh:mm" CultureInfo.InvariantCulture "9/14/2016 19:31"
Why am I getting the exception message? Should I change the CultureInfo settings? Or is there a pre-defined datetime format to parse my datetimes?

When working with 24 hour format you should use H (HH) not h hh (which is for 12 hour format) pattern:
format = #"M/d/yyyy H:mm";

since you are using 24 hour in your value you must put capitals in hours. Change
"M/dd/yyyy hh:mm"
to
"M/dd/yyyy HH:mm"

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