Re: CurrentUICulture problems en-GB

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From: Pete Beech (peter_beech_at_hotmail.nojunk.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:02:28 +0200

There are 2 kinds of culture settings in .NET - CurrentCulture and
CurrentUICulture.
CurrentUICulture is used to get specific resources for a certain culture -
like strings for menu descriptions, etc, which you store in different
satellite resources.
CurrentCulture is for regional settings like dates, currency, number
formatting, etc. Thats the one you want here.

i.e.:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture=new CultureInfo("en-GB");
Response.Write(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.EnglishName);
Response.Write(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern);

HTH,
Pete Beech

"Murray" <mlohoar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6103d1ff.0403300636.56acf13b@posting.google.com...
> I have put the following code in two pages:
>
> Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture=new CultureInfo("en-GB");
> Response.Write(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.EnglishName);
>
Response.Write(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern)
;
> Response.Write(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString());
>
> in one page I get:
> English (United Kingdom)M/d/yyyy30/03/2004
>
> in the other I get:
> English (United Kingdom)M/d/yyyy3/30/2004
>
> Exactly the same code in the Page_Load on the same machine!
> Both have the same Culture settings in the web.config
> A part from the ShortDatePattern being wrong for the en-GB...
> What is going on here?
> Thanks
> Murray