When I use the Now() Fucntion i my ASP.net application I get a date format
of mm/dd/yy.
I want it to be dd/mm/yy. I set in the web config "culture="en-GB"
uiCulture="en" and also set the regional setting of the computer.
When I am checking "Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture" I can see it's
"en-GB" and the date format is like I want it (dd/mm/yy), but still the
Now() function gives me mm/dd/yy format.
How do I correct this problem ?

Thanks

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I think you have to set CurrentUICulture:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;


"ra294" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When I use the Now() Fucntion i my ASP.net application I get a date format
> of mm/dd/yy.
> I want it to be dd/mm/yy. I set in the web config "culture="en-GB"
> uiCulture="en" and also set the regional setting of the computer.
> When I am checking "Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture" I can see it's
> "en-GB" and the date format is like I want it (dd/mm/yy), but still the
> Now() function gives me mm/dd/yy format.
> How do I correct this problem ?
>
> Thanks
>
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
>

ra294 wrote:
> When I use the Now() Fucntion i my ASP.net application I get a date
> format of mm/dd/yy.
> I want it to be dd/mm/yy. I set in the web config "culture="en-GB"
> uiCulture="en" and also set the regional setting of the computer.
> When I am checking "Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture" I can see
> it's "en-GB" and the date format is like I want it (dd/mm/yy), but
> still the Now() function gives me mm/dd/yy format.
> How do I correct this problem ?
>
> Thanks
>
> (E-Mail Removed)

DateTime.Now doesn't give a "mm/dd/yyyy" string, it gives a DateTime value.
When you do a ToString() on that DateTime value, you might get
a "mm/dd/yyyy" string. The debugger also shows the result of ToString().

You might try setting the CurrentUICulture, but in this particular case
there is another option: use ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") (use capital MM
to get month, lowercase mm returns minutes)

By the way, if you are only interested in the date, you can also use
DateTime.Today.


Hans Kesting

Put this code in Application_BeginRequest event (global.asax)
Normally the ToString() function displays a string based on the current
culture.
So you must change current culture.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture
= new CultureInfo("en-GB");


Hope this helps!
Franck Quintana.

I tried both setting the CurrentUICulture and also
Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") and I still get mm/dd/yyyy format when using the
Now() function.

Any other ideas ?

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"Franck Quintana" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Put this code in Application_BeginRequest event (global.asax)
> Normally the ToString() function displays a string based on the current
> culture.
> So you must change current culture.
>
> Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
> Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture
> = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
>
>
> Hope this helps!
> Franck Quintana.
>

ra294 wrote:
> I tried both setting the CurrentUICulture and also
> Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") and I still get mm/dd/yyyy format when
> using the Now() function.
>
> Any other ideas ?
>

*Where* do you get that mm/dd/yyyy format? In the debugger-window?
The Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") returns a formatted string, it doesn't *set*
the format "to use from now on". A following call to Now() returns a new DateTime
value and if you have this converted to string (as vb probably does automatically)
you are really calling the ToString() method with no parameters, so you get
the default US format of mm/dd/yyyy.

Hans Kesting