Cultural specific data annotations

Question

I\'m trying to get cultural specific data annotations.

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = \"{0:d}\")]
public DateTime Date{ get; set; }

I though

Answer 1

You have to actually set the current culture, the MVC framework doesn't set it automatically (remember that a page's language might depend on factors like the URL, not just the browser settings.

To set the culture, use Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture. You can get the browser settings from HttpRequest.UserLanguages (keep in mind that this value is just what comes through the HTTP request).

Edit

Per this answer, it seems there is a way to instruct ASP.Net to set the language based on the HTTP request header (set web.config globalization -> "culture" and "uiCulture" to "auto").