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special life
special life

Reputation: 225

Cannot convert from Hijri Date to Gregorian date (c#)

Now i am working with Hijri dates and trying to convert them to Gregorian dates using the following code : 

string HijriDate;
string[] allFormats ={"yyyy/MM/dd","yyyy/M/d",
    "dd/MM/yyyy","d/M/yyyy",
    "dd/M/yyyy","d/MM/yyyy","yyyy-MM-dd",
    "yyyy-M-d","dd-MM-yyyy","d-M-yyyy",
    "dd-M-yyyy","d-MM-yyyy","yyyy MM dd",
    "yyyy M d","dd MM yyyy","d M yyyy",
    "dd M yyyy","d MM yyyy","MM/dd/yyyy"};
CultureInfo enCul = new CultureInfo("en-US");
CultureInfo arCul = new CultureInfo("ar-SA");
arCul.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.HijriCalendar(); 
DateTime tempDate = DateTime.ParseExact(HijriDate, allFormats, arCul.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);
return tempDate.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");

this code is working fine with all dates except the date that has 30th day in month like the following :

30/10/1433, 30/12/1432 or 30/05/1433 etc. so how to handle and convert that date with its corresponding Gregorian

Upvotes: 11

Views: 20330

Answers (3)

Ahmad Hindash
Ahmad Hindash

Reputation: 1629

here is the code it is working well now on this code I'm returning the date from the function as string not as datetime, but you can simply using return datetime type instead on string 

public string ConvertDateCalendar(DateTime DateConv, string Calendar, string DateLangCulture)
{
    System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo DTFormat;
    DateLangCulture = DateLangCulture.ToLower();
    /// We can't have the hijri date writen in English. We will get a runtime error - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:01:45 PM -

    if (Calendar == "Hijri" && DateLangCulture.StartsWith("en-"))
    {
        DateLangCulture = "ar-sa";
    }

    /// Set the date time format to the given culture - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:04:22 PM -
    DTFormat = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(DateLangCulture, false).DateTimeFormat;

    /// Set the calendar property of the date time format to the given calendar - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:04:52 PM -
    switch (Calendar)
    {
        case "Hijri":
            DTFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.HijriCalendar();
            break;

        case "Gregorian":
            DTFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar();
            break;

        default:
            return "";
    }

    /// We format the date structure to whatever we want - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:05:39 PM -
    DTFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd/MM/yyyy";
    return (DateConv.Date.ToString("f", DTFormat));
}

To call this Method here are an example

ltrCalValue.Text = ConvertDateCalendar(CalHijri.SelectedDate, "Gregorian", "en-US");

To call the Hijri 

ltrCalValue.Text = ConvertDateCalendar(CalHijri.SelectedDate, "Hijri", "en-US");

Upvotes: 10

nothrow
nothrow

Reputation: 16168

10th and 12nd months in Hirji don't have 30th day, so that date is invalid.

Upvotes: -1

Nikhil Agrawal
Nikhil Agrawal

Reputation: 48568

Max Value of a days in a month can be calculated by DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month)

and use it this way

int result = DateTime.DaysInMonth(2012, 2); // returns 29 being a leap year

but 

int result = DateTime.DaysInMonth(2011, 2) // returns 28 being a non-leap year

Upvotes: 0

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