Remove AM PM from Time String using C#

Code Snippets:

Function to read data from input file:

public void ReadDataFromFile(string fileName)
{
string Name;
DateTime DOJ;
var contents = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(fileName).Split('\n');
var csv = from line in contents
select line.Split(',').ToArray();
int headerRows = 1;
foreach (var row in csv.Skip(headerRows)
.TakeWhile(r => r.Length > 1 && r.Last().Trim().Length > 0))
{
Name = row[0];
DOJ = Convert.ToDateTime(row[1]) + TimeSpan.Parse(FormatTime(row[2]));
}
}

Function to format time by stripping out AM/PM string:

protected string FormatTime(string inputTime)
{
string outputTime = string.Empty;
string timeFormat = inputTime.Substring(inputTime.Length - 2);
switch (timeFormat)
{
case ("AM"):
outputTime = inputTime.Replace("AM", "");
break;
case ("PM"):
int hours = 0;
int.TryParse(inputTime.Replace("PM", ""), out hours);
outputTime = (hours + 12).ToString();
break;
}
return outputTime;
}

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Name	DOJ	Check in Time
Dipendra	4/15/2016	9:00:00 AM
Mahesh	4/12/2016	2:30:00 PM