Compare Validators - Date Problem

just4ulove7

Hi,, I am using Compare validators to compare two dates. One of them is as below. Now I need to enter dates in dd/MM/yyyy format. But the Compare validator takes the default date format as MM/dd/yyyy. So if I have two dates as 5/7/2005 2/8/2005 the above date proves to be greater than the below date, as it compares mm/dd/yyyy format, and my validation gets wrong. Can anyone tell me how to change the Datechecking format of the validator? Or any other options... Thanks

Guffa

Create a CultureInfo for your locale and put it in Thread.CurrentCulture to alter the date format. Example for settings swedish culture: Thread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(1053); --- b { font-weight: normal; }

just4ulove7

Sorry didnt get u. Where should I code for Thread.CurrentCulture? Thanks

Guffa

Make sure that it happens before the validation. In global.asax might be a good place. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

just4ulove7

Thanks a lot. It worked out... I found another option too To put culture="en-GB" uiCulture="en-GB" in Web.config, Globalization section. Thanks

minhpc_bk

Hi there, In addition to placing the settings in the web.config file and it will affect the entire application, you can also set those properties in the Page directive for a specific web page.

just4ulove7

How to do that? Also let me know ... If I have specified a setting in web.config for culture, Is it possible to specify another date format in a particular control. I tried doing this but it throws an error. Like I have specified "dd/MM/yyyy" in web.config. I want a particular dateformat in a variable to be in MM/dd/yyyy format, so i just used .ToString("MM/dd/yyyy",new CultureInfo("en-GB")) but it gave an error... Just wanted to know this... Thanks...

minhpc_bk

It looks something like:

<%@ Page UICulture="en" Culture="en-GB"...%>

At runtime, you can format the value of the DateTime type for a specific culture, you can take a look at here[^] for more information. Since you didn't say what is the error, what your failure code looks like, so I have no idea why.