Is there a way to determine the OS's date/time culture format (e.g.
mm/dd/yyy vs. dd/mm/yyy) setting at run time?

TIA

Brad

Brad <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is there a way to determine the OS's date/time culture format (e.g.
> mm/dd/yyy vs. dd/mm/yyy) setting at run time?

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat will give you a
DateTimeFormatInfo which should have the info you need.

In some situations, CurrentUICulture would be more appropriate. See the
docs for more details.

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Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Brad <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Is there a way to determine the OS's date/time culture format (e.g.
>> mm/dd/yyy vs. dd/mm/yyy) setting at run time?
>
> CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat will give you a
> DateTimeFormatInfo which should have the info you need.
>
> In some situations, CurrentUICulture would be more appropriate. See the
> docs for more details.
Sorry to contradict, but in all situations dealing with formats
(number/date/time), CurrentCulture is the thing you need.
See "Two things that suck about CurrentUICulture"
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...0/1442340.aspx



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Mihai N. wrote:
> Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
> > Brad <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >> Is there a way to determine the OS's date/time culture format (e.g.
> >> mm/dd/yyy vs. dd/mm/yyy) setting at run time?
> >
> > CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat will give you a
> > DateTimeFormatInfo which should have the info you need.
> >
> > In some situations, CurrentUICulture would be more appropriate. See the
> > docs for more details.
> Sorry to contradict, but in all situations dealing with formats
> (number/date/time), CurrentCulture is the thing you need.
> See "Two things that suck about CurrentUICulture"
> http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...0/1442340.aspx

Ah, I see. I was under the mistaken impression that in an ASP.NET
setting, the CurrentUICulture would be set to the CultureInfo of the
browsing user whereas CurrentCulture would be the system default
culture.

It is indeed a bit of a mess. Still, just one more bit of i18n
trickery...

Jon

> It is indeed a bit of a mess. Still, just one more bit of i18n
> trickery...
Well, each area with its own trickery :-)


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