How can I get date and time formats based on Culture Info?

You can retrieve the format strings from the CultureInfo DateTimeFormat property, which is a DateTimeFormatInfo instance. This in turn has properties like ShortDatePattern and ShortTimePattern, containing the format strings:

CultureInfo us = new CultureInfo("en-US");
string shortUsDateFormatString = us.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;
string shortUsTimeFormatString = us.DateTimeFormat.ShortTimePattern;

CultureInfo uk = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
string shortUkDateFormatString = uk.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;
string shortUkTimeFormatString = uk.DateTimeFormat.ShortTimePattern;

If you simply want to format the date/time using the CultureInfo, pass it in as your IFormatter when converting the DateTime to a string, using the ToString method:

string us = myDate.ToString(new CultureInfo("en-US"));
string uk = myDate.ToString(new CultureInfo("en-GB"));

// Try this may help

string us = DateTime.Now.Date.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy",new CultureInfo("en-US"));

or

 string us = DateTime.Now.Date.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy",new CultureInfo("en-GB"));

You could take a look at the DateTimeFormat property which contains the culture specific formats.


Use a CultureInfo like this, from MSDN:

// Creates a CultureInfo for German in Germany.
CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("de-DE");

// Displays dt, formatted using the CultureInfo
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString(ci));

More info on MSDN. Here is a link of all different cultures.


Try setting a custom CultureInfo for CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture:

Globalization.CultureInfo customCulture = new Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", true);

customCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "yyyy-MM-dd h:mm tt";

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = customCulture;
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = customCulture;

DateTime newDate = System.Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd h:mm tt"));