problems with culture / .net installation en-GB

[David Mc]

We recently installed the 1.1 redist of .Net on a new server. Only
after installing .Net did I realize that the regional settings of the
server had not been localized.

The application we have written uses GB style dates i.e. dd/mm/yyyy.
When running new server we were getting error message - i.e. incorrect
date format. First we removed the app and .net, reset the locale,
rebooted and re-installed everything. However server still defaulting
to US dates. So we have now edited web.config and set culture="GB-en"
uiculture="GB-en". The app is now no longer complaining about the date
format, but it is still using US default days - i.e Sunday=7 rather
than sunday=1. This does not seem to be impacted by changing the
culture in web.config.

I have two questions. (1) why does .Net continue to believe that it
should use US format even though the regional settings on the server
have been changed - I have reset looked through the registry but could
not identify a problem key. The machine.config shows culture=neutral
for all entries.

(2) Where do the US day numbers comefrom. Is there some way of setting
these in web.config.

Many thanks for help.
Davud

 

[Patrice]

What exactly is the expression that returns 7 ?

In particular note of course that enums for the days of the week won't
change. What change is the property that defines the first day of the week.
Try :
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")

Response.Write(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTime
Format.FirstDayOfWeek)

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-GB")

Response.Write(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTime
Format.FirstDayOfWeek)




Patrice

 

[David McKee]

Hi Patrice,


The code you supplied returns Sunday/Monday in that order which is
strange as it implies that the first day of the week for the en-US is
Sunday and For en-GB Monday. I am asking the developers for access to
the source code. So that I can see what is going on. Many thanks for
replying to my mail. I will post again when I have the source.

Dave


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[Patrice]

Do you mean it shouldn't . AFAIK the fisrt day of the week is Monday in US.
Not sure for GB.

The 7 sounds really strange to me as the days enumeration for .NET renges
aFAIK from 0 (Sunday) to 6

Patrice

 

[David Mc]

Patrice,

Problem now resolved, many thanks for your help. I did pull up and
plough through the code - it was a little hard to follow - but that
was not the issue. The problem was that when the Oracle client
software was installed it took it NLS_LANG from the system locale of
the NT server. Thus when aspnet made a connection to Oracle it was
explicitly setting NLS_LANG etc for its session. Changing the
registry entry in HKLM.Software.oracle.home0 from american to uk
english sorted it out.

Thanks Again.
Dave