Changing Date format to en-us while culture is fr-ca

Question

I\'m working on localizing a website in French. However I am not supposed to change the date format to French. It must remain as per en-us format even if the culture is set

Answer 1

Thanks Guys !!!! Seems like your sugessions are working for me. I tried creating a custom culture which extends the features of fr-ca and changes its date format to en-us. Here is the code

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("fr-ca");
DateTimeFormatInfo dateformat = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
dateformat.FullDateTimePattern = "ffffdd, mmmm dd, yyyy h:mm:ss tt";// Date format of en-us
ci.DateTimeFormat = dateformat;
CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder obj = new CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder("fr-ca", CultureAndRegionModifiers.Replacement);
obj.LoadDataFromCultureInfo(ci);
obj.Register();

Once the code registers new fr-ca, the date format of the fr-ca will be same as that of en-us. The code can be used in Page_Load.

Answer 2

Surprisingly I got a very simple answer. While setting Culture and UICulture, all I need to do is to set the Culture Property to en-us always. This will result in showing the date format in English always.

Answer 3

On the string, when you display the date, do the following:

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("en-US");
string s = dateTimeObject.ToString(ci);

This is a simplified example however, you just need to do the necessary work you want to do on the DateTime object.

Answer 4

To change how dates are formatted you could create a custom CultureInfo, based on an existing CultureInfo (in your case "fr-CA"), modifying only the date formats. I don't have any experience in this, but the linked aricle and this article explains how it's done. Supposedly, it's not too difficult.

I imagine that setting System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture to an instance of your custom CultureInfo (e.g. in the Page.Load event) should do the job.

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Or, use the CultureInfo class to specify culture on a per-string basis:

CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

Whenever you write a date to the page, use the following syntax:

myDate.ToString("d", culture);

or

string.Format(
  culture,
  "This is a string containing a date: {0:d}",
  myDate);

The CultureInfo class resides in the System.Globalization namespace and d in the above is the format in which to output the date. See John Sheehan's ".NET Format String Quick Reference" cheat sheet for more on format strings.

Answer 5

Here is the above code in code snipet :

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("fr-ca"); 

DateTimeFormatInfo dateformat = new DateTimeFormatInfo();



dateformat.FullDateTimePattern = "ffffdd, mmmm dd, yyyy h:mm:ss tt";// Date format of en-us



ci.DateTimeFormat = dateformat; 

CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder obj = new CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder("fr-ca", CultureAndRegionModifiers.Replacement);


 obj.LoadDataFromCultureInfo(ci); 

obj.Register();

Answer 6

In my case I had to set the language of the app, also determine if the language is right-to-left language, but also needed to keep the standard datetime format. So that was what I did:

string culture = "ar-SA";  
//Set language and culture to Arabic  
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(culture);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(culture);

//But independent of language, keep datetime format same
DateTimeFormatInfo englishDateTimeFormat = new CultureInfo("en-CA").DateTimeFormat;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat = englishDateTimeFormat;