DayOfWeek in other languages?

[mistery22]

Hi, I was trying to make a language selection of the Day-name. When I get the date with DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek, is there a posibility in System.Globalization to return the name of a day in another language then the Windows language? Writing a switch case doesn't seems me to be the .NET way :). System.DateTime myDate = System.DateTime.Now; System.Globalization.CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("nl-BE"); myDate.DayOfWeek.ToString(ci); above code still returns the English Name, not the Dutch name. Thanks,

[mistery22]

I found it by myself :) It seems that .DayOfWeek only returns the english name. When you use to formatted string DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd") it returns the day with the name in the language from the windows settings (not the windows language itsels). To force it to another language you can use. System.Globalization.CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("fr-BE"); DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd", ci) And it will return the day of the week in the language specified in the CultureInfo. :cool: So I was right to suppose a switch structure was not he .Net way.