Date Format

[alwinSCH]

Hi to All, I was recently trying to develop a website in where i display a date in a textbox ----> txtdatin.Text = FormatDateTime(Date.Today, vbShortDate) So VBShortDate takes the format of the date options in Regional settings? (dd/MM/jjjj) So far so good! On my own developpers pc When the application is finished i would publish it for real! The regional settings are exactly the same, but my date is displayed (d/MM/jjjj) This is not correct because i work on that date! It should also be dd/MM/jjjj Is there another thing i should configure in IIS, ASP.net2.0 Or is there another function i could use instead of vbShortDate directly set the format right? Thanks for your support

[Guffa]

It's not using the regional settings that you think it is. It's using the settings of the server, not the client. The solution is to never use the default regional settings, unless you have specified them in the configuration files. You can create a CultureInfo object to use for formatting. For an example, for swedish format I use: Dim culture as CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo(1053) Then you use that to format the date: txtdatin.Text = Date.Today.ToString("d", culture) You can also specify an exact format: txtdatin.Text = Date.Today.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") --- b { font-weight: normal; }

[alwinSCH]

Yes I know, it uses the regional settings of the server, I set them like my development pc! So it has to work the same way! And how does such cultureInfo work? Could you give a little explanation? Thnx

[Guffa]

No, it doesn't work the same way. Exactly how it works may differ depending on the version of Windows. So setting the regional settings of the server is not a good way of controlling the regional settings of the ASP.NET code. A CultureInfo object contains format providers for formatting dates, numbers, currency and such. Whenever a value like this is converted to a string, a format provider is always used. If you don't specify a format provider or CultureInfo, the default culture for the thread is used, and you can't know what that is unless you specify it yourself. --- b { font-weight: normal; }