Months name

[Guest]

Why does System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames
return 13 elements? Why does it not use the cuurent culture?

 

[Guest]

Why does System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames
return 13 elements? Why does it not use the cuurent culture?

RTFM

DateTimeFormatInfo.MonthNames Property

Property Value
A one-dimensional array of type String containing the culture-specific
full names of the months. In a 12-month calendar, the 13th element of
the array is an empty string. The array for InvariantInfo contains
"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
"August", "September", "October", "November", "December", and "".

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

Why does System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames
return 13 elements? Why does it not use the cuurent culture?

I do not know of any culture that has 13 months.

Now I do not know the rationale behind using a final empty value, somebody
has a clue?

 

[Mythran]

Hi,



I do not know of any culture that has 13 months.

Now I do not know the rationale behind using a final empty value, somebody
has a clue?

A calendar system that has 13 months is a "reformed" calendar that allows an
equal # of days spread across the 13 months (28 days x 13 months = 364
calendar days).

Checkout "Calendar reform" on wikipedia for a more in-depth explanation

HTH,
Mythran

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

A calendar system that has 13 months is a "reformed" calendar that allows
an equal # of days spread across the 13 months (28 days x 13 months = 364
calendar days).

Checkout "Calendar reform" on wikipedia for a more in-depth explanation

Thanks for the link!