Hello,

I have code like
dt.DayOfWeek.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
where dt is a DateTime object.

I get something like "Sunday", "Monday", etc... while I'm expecting it to be
in French. I have a bilingual app in English and French. I don't have any
problem elsewhere, like when outputting the month for example, but DayOfWeek
is not working as I expected.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture gets it runtime versus compile time. Are you
compiling on an english machine and running it on a french machine??

Also, I'd try dumping out the cultures (.GetCultures()) to make sure .NET
recognizes what you think it does..

HTH

"M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have code like
> dt.DayOfWeek.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
> where dt is a DateTime object.
>
> I get something like "Sunday", "Monday", etc... while I'm expecting it to
> be in French. I have a bilingual app in English and French. I don't have
> any problem elsewhere, like when outputting the month for example, but
> DayOfWeek is not working as I expected.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>

> CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture gets it runtime versus compile time. Are you
> compiling on an english machine and running it on a french machine??
>
> Also, I'd try dumping out the cultures (.GetCultures()) to make sure .NET
> recognizes what you think it does..
CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture depend only on the system running the
application, not on the system you compiling it.
Otherwise good advices.

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>> CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture gets it runtime versus compile time. Are you
>> compiling on an english machine and running it on a french machine??
>>
>> Also, I'd try dumping out the cultures (.GetCultures()) to make sure .NET
>> recognizes what you think it does..
> CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture depend only on the system running the
> application, not on the system you compiling it.
> Otherwise good advices.
>

Oups! I was not carefull enough!
dt.ToString("dddd", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat);
should do.

CurrentCulture matches the user locale and the CurrentUICulture matches
the OS/MUI language.

This is unless you manualy change
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture or
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture

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M,
In addition to the other comments.

DateTime.DayOfWeek returns an enum, enums unfortunately are not localized.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Fortunately! You should be able to use a custom date format of either "ddd"
(abbreviated) or "dddd" (full) to get localized day names:

dt.ToString("dddd")

For details on custom datetime formats see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...matstrings.asp

For information on formatting in .NET in general see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ttingtypes.asp

Hope this helps
Jay


"M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I have code like
> dt.DayOfWeek.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
> where dt is a DateTime object.
>
> I get something like "Sunday", "Monday", etc... while I'm expecting it to
> be in French. I have a bilingual app in English and French. I don't have
> any problem elsewhere, like when outputting the month for example, but
> DayOfWeek is not working as I expected.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>