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FatimahM
FatimahM

Reputation: 105

DateTime month format for en-US

I am parsing some dates to be the MMM-dd-yyyy format, but for some reason my month names are coming out in non-standard english names.

May is Mai, October is Okt, March is Mrz , December Dez , why are these not May, Oct, Mar and Dec?

Where am I going wrong? 

DateTime projectStartDay = DateTime.Parse("1/1/2017",CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"));
DateTime projectEndDay = DateTime.Parse("12/1/2017",CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"));

Console.WriteLine(projectStartDay.ToString("MMM-dd-yyyy"));
Console.WriteLine(projectEndDay.ToString("MMM-dd-yyyy"));

I get the following:

Jan-01-2017
Dez-01-2017 ← I would like that to be Dec-01-2017

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4350

Answers (1)

kurakura88
kurakura88

Reputation: 2305

You need to specify the culture when you print it out.

  // Creates a CultureInfo for en-US.
  CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("en-US");
  string format = "MMM-dd-yyyy";

  Console.WriteLine(projectStartDay.ToString(format, ci));
  Console.WriteLine(projectEndDay.ToString(format, ci));

Upvotes: 4

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