How to Get Short Date Format Pattern?

[Ellis Yu]

Dear All

I want to read the short date format pattern from the regional
setting. I write a code as follow:

'Diff. machine may has different country setting, so I use blank
here
Dim a as new CultureInfo("")
Dim shortDatePattern as String

shortDatePattern = a.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern()

But I found that the pattern is different to my regional setting one. Anyone
know how to do? Thanks

Best Rdgs
Ellis

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...etimeformatinfoclassshortdatepatterntopic.asp

Ken
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Dear All

I want to read the short date format pattern from the regional
setting. I write a code as follow:

'Diff. machine may has different country setting, so I use blank
here
Dim a as new CultureInfo("")
Dim shortDatePattern as String

shortDatePattern = a.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern()

But I found that the pattern is different to my regional setting one. Anyone
know how to do? Thanks

Best Rdgs
Ellis

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Ellis,

'Diff. machine may has different country setting, so I use blank
here

But I found that the pattern is different to my regional setting one.
Anyone
know how to do? Thanks

You make me curious, how do you do that?

Even if I would use a device to find the location by satalite, than I did
not know the culture of the user.

Cor

 

[Ellis Yu]

Thanks Ken, maybe I didn't explain clear enough of my problem. I want to get
the short time format pattern from regional setting. Since the pattern maybe
changed by the user, it's different to the default pattern. Just like the
sample you given to me, if the culture is "en-US", then the short format
will be "M/d/yyyy" even the user had used his customized format instead. If
in that case, how can I do?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Dim a as new CultureInfo("")
Dim shortDatePattern as String

shortDatePattern = a.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern()

But I found that the pattern is different to my regional setting one.
Anyone
know how to do? Thanks

Try this:

\\\
Imports System.Globalization
..
..
..
MsgBox(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern)
///

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Dim myDTFI As DateTimeFormatInfo =
Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat



Ken

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Thanks Ken, maybe I didn't explain clear enough of my problem. I want to get
the short time format pattern from regional setting. Since the pattern maybe
changed by the user, it's different to the default pattern. Just like the
sample you given to me, if the culture is "en-US", then the short format
will be "M/d/yyyy" even the user had used his customized format instead. If
in that case, how can I do?