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serhio
serhio

Reputation: 28586

Date format and Client-Server interaction

Imagine an abstract problem.

There is a client (C) that interacts to a server(S). They changes a date variable(d).

A server can be French or English, the client too.

A date sent by a French client ("31/12/2011") to an English Server("12/31/2011") can't recognize it. And viceversa.

How to avoid such a problem in .NET.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 699

Answers (3)

Scotti
Scotti

Reputation: 289

Is there any reason why you are sending the date as string? The best thing would be to share the date using DateTime datatype. If for any reason, you can just send the string, best is to convert the date value to LongDateFormat and then transfer, which could be parsed on the other end to get the meaningful date.

Upvotes: 0

Tridus
Tridus

Reputation: 5081

Send it between the client and server using the Ticks property. That's a number and will always be the same no matter what you want to format the date as.

Upvotes: 1

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500875

Are you in control of both the client and the server? If so, just agree on a format and culture - I'd suggest the invariant culture - and explicitly make sure that both sides adhere to it.

You can very easily parse and format in .NET using the invariant culture - look for ToString and Parse/TryParse overloads which include an IFormatProvider parameter.

Upvotes: 4

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