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bala3569
bala3569

Reputation: 11010

Get Month name from month number

Possible Duplicate:
How to get the MonthName in c#?

I used the following c# syntax to get month name from month no but i get August i want only Aug..

System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo mfi = new 
System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo();
string strMonthName = mfi.GetMonthName(8).ToString();

Any suggestion...

Upvotes: 320

Views: 452412

Answers (9)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039438

For short month names use:

string monthName = new DateTime(2010, 8, 1)
    .ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

For long/full month names for Spanish ("es") culture:

string fullMonthName = new DateTime(2015, i, 1).ToString("MMMM", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es"));

Upvotes: 438

bigtheo
bigtheo

Reputation: 660

You can also do this to get current Month :

string monthName = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(DateTime.Now.Month);

Upvotes: 8

Joel Wiklund
Joel Wiklund

Reputation: 1875

var month = 5;
var cultureSwe = "sv-SE";
var monthSwe = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(cultureSwe).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName(month);
Console.WriteLine(monthSwe);

var cultureEn = "en-US";
var monthEn = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(cultureEn).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName(month);
Console.WriteLine(monthEn);

Output

maj
may

Upvotes: 4

Thili77
Thili77

Reputation: 1095

You can get this in following way,

DateTimeFormatInfo mfi = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
string strMonthName = mfi.GetMonthName(8).ToString(); //August

Now, get first three characters

string shortMonthName = strMonthName.Substring(0, 3); //Aug

Upvotes: 13

Rishin C
Rishin C

Reputation: 91

This should return month text (January - December) from the month index (1-12)

int monthNumber = 1; //1-12  
string monthName = new DateTimeFormatInfo().GetMonthName(monthNumber);

Upvotes: 8

Benjamin RD
Benjamin RD

Reputation: 12044

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(4)

This method return April

If you need some special language, you can add:

<system.web>
    <globalization culture="es-ES" uiCulture="es-ES"></globalization>
     <compilation debug="true"
</system.web>

Or your preferred language.

For example, with es-ES culture:

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(4)

Returns: Abril

Returns: Abril (in spanish, because, we configured the culture as es-ES in our webconfig file, else, you will get April)

That should work.

Upvotes: 19

CharithJ
CharithJ

Reputation: 47570

For Abbreviated Month Names : "Aug"

DateTimeFormatInfo.GetAbbreviatedMonthName Method (Int32)

Returns the culture-specific abbreviated name of the specified month based on the culture associated with the current DateTimeFormatInfo object.

string monthName = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName(8)

For Full Month Names : "August"

DateTimeFormatInfo.GetMonthName Method (Int32)

Returns the culture-specific full name of the specified month based on the culture associated with the current DateTimeFormatInfo object.

string monthName = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(8);

Upvotes: 361

Lasse V. Karlsen
Lasse V. Karlsen

Reputation: 391664

Replace GetMonthName with GetAbbreviatedMonthName so that it reads:

string strMonthName = mfi.GetAbbreviatedMonthName(8);

Upvotes: 89

AakashM
AakashM

Reputation: 63378

You want GetAbbreviatedMonthName

Upvotes: 12

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