<p>I need to be able to compare some month names I have in an array.</p>

<p>It would be nice if there were some direct way like:</p>

<pre><code>Month.toInt("January") &gt; Month.toInt("May")
</code></pre>

<p>My Google searching seems to suggest the only way is to write your own method, but this seems like a common enough problem that I would think it would have been already implemented in .Net, anyone done this before?</p>

If you are using c# 3.0 (or above) you can use extenders