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iggyweb
iggyweb

Reputation: 2483

MVC 4 - Force DateTime

Is it possible to force a DateTime object to use a different locale? I wish to populate a DateTime object with a UK DateTime but formatted as US.

I have tried the following:

DateTime ukDateTimeFormat = DateTime.Parse("10/26/2009 06:47", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-us"));
DateTime usDateTimeFormat = DateTime.Parse("26/10/2009 06:47", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-gb"));

string strDate = DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
string[] dateString = strDate.Split('/');
DateTime enterDate = DateTime.Parse(dateString[0] + "/" + dateString[1] + "/" + dateString[2], CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-us"));

Nothing works, I always end up with a UK formatted date.

Any help would be much appreciated :-)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 313

Answers (3)

nattro
nattro

Reputation: 1

To format your date for the locale, use this code:

string formattedDate = ukDateFormat.ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-us"))

Upvotes: 0

escargot agile
escargot agile

Reputation: 22379

It seems like you're confused between representing a date-time and formatting a date-time.

DateTime does not contain any format, it only represents the actual time. So the question about a US/UK format of a DateTime is meaningless.

If you want to display the time in a different format, that's not a DateTime, that's a string. You can use the various overloads of DateTime.ToString(...) in order to achieve different formatting as a string. There are some built-in formats, and you can specify a locale.

Upvotes: 4

Paddy
Paddy

Reputation: 33857

The DateTime object does not have an internal string format as such - your date is stored as a date and formatted on output. You can populate however you wish, however when outputting it, you'll need to specify your format, e.g.:

string formattedDate = ukDateFormat.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm");

Upvotes: 3

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