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Walter Fabio Simoni
Walter Fabio Simoni

Reputation: 5727

DateTime bound to a datagrid : Display in EU format, not US

I have a datagrid in WPF. In this datagrid, i display several bound DateTime. The dateTime are displayed in US format, and i'm French, so, i would like to display it in EU format (dd/mm/yyyy).

Is there a way to directly set the DateTime format in EU whithout parsing it to a string ? I would like to use the DateTime directly, not the string.

Thanks a lot :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 270

Answers (1)

evanmcdonnal
evanmcdonnal

Reputation: 48154

Yes. You can change the CultureInfo or you can make a custom formatting string info here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx)

  // a global var
  string dtFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy";


  //where I'm displaying my DT
  Console.WrtieLine(myDT.ToString(dtFormat));

Info on CultureInfo which is what you'll want to use if you want to do any non numerical representations. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.datetimeformat(v=vs.71).aspx

There are also several easy to find SO questions with specific examples using CultureInfo such as this Datetime string formatting and CultureInfo which shows how to display the three letter representation for a day in French.

Upvotes: 1

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