date format converter?

[visiontec]

Hi there i an a newbie to c# how can i change the date to british date format?(dd-mm-yy) in my applications? VisionTec

[Dmitriy Kostovetskiy]

Here is an example:

MessageBox.Show(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy"));

[Heath Stewart]

A better way is to use an IFormatProvider for the British CultureInfo. For example, String.Format can take an IFormatProvider as the first parameter. This could be the CultureInfo.NumberFormat for the CultureInfo for the English (Britain) culture. By default, such methods uses the Thread.CurrentCulture but as I've mentioned you can override this behavior by passing an IFormatProvider. This is the correct way, instead of assuming and managing custom format specifiers like the previous post mentioned. For more information about localization and culture-specific formatting, see Developing World-Read Applications[^] in the .NET Framework SDK. With regard to your question, see Formatting Date and Time for a Specific Culture[^] under the previous topic.

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