time format problem

[Julia]

Hi

I have changed my regional options on my computer to English (United States)
(I used to have Swedish). I would print the value of the current time in a
textbox on my asp.net page. I use this function:

txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();

The time shown on the page is on the format 16:34 and I dont want that. I
want the american format. What can be wrong?

Thanks
Julia

[Leon Mayne]

RE: time format problem

"Julia" wrote:

txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();
>
The time shown on the page is on the format 16:34 and I dont want that. I
want the american format. What can be wrong?

Set the ShortTimePatter n property of the current culture thread:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.toshorttimestring(VS.80).aspx

[Q. John Chen]

Re: time format problem

The code is run on the web server. If the server's regional setting is
Swedish, the text is still formatted in Swedish. It doesn't matter what
region the user is using.

If you want always display US format. You can
1) change the regional option of the server. or
2) format the time in us format (something like "hh:mm am/pm" but
not 100% sure). Or
3) sepcify the culture to get the time text.

John


Julia wrote:

Hi
>
I have changed my regional options on my computer to English (United States)
(I used to have Swedish). I would print the value of the current time in a
textbox on my asp.net page. I use this function:
>
txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();
>
The time shown on the page is on the format 16:34 and I dont want that. I
want the american format. What can be wrong?
>
Thanks
Julia

[Kevin Spencer]

Re: time format problem

Hi Julia,

That is odd. According to the .Net SDK regarding the return value of the
DateTime.ToShor TimeString method:

""The value of this instance is formatted using the short time format
character, 't'. The return value is identical to the value returned by
ToString ("t", null)."

This overload of the DateTime.ToStri ng method takes 2 parameters, the second
of which is a System.Globaliz ation.DateTimeF ormatInfo instance. If it is
null, the DateTimeFormatI nfo member of the static
System.Globaliz ationCurrentCul ture.CultureInf o property is used.

Again, according to the documentation, this Standard DateTime Format string
for the "en-us" culture specification is equivalent to the Custom DateTime
Format string "h:mm tt" (Hour 1-12, 2-digit Minute, and either "AM" or
"PM").

The CultureInfo.Cur rentCulture class is documented as, when a managed
Application Thread starts, the Windows API GetUserDefaultL CID function is
called, which obtains the Local Identifier from the Operating System. This
Local Identifier is what you would set in Control Panel if you changed your
Regional Options.

The only possibility I can guess is that, since an ASP.Net application is
hosted in IIS, if you changed your Regional Options and did not either
restart IIS or reboot the computer, the ASP.Net application may not have
restarted, and fetched the new Local Identifier.

Here are some references that should help:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo.shorttimepattern.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_08tg.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/nls_8sj7.asp

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Ministry of Software Development

http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

Never trust a dunderhead with a blunderbuss.


"Julia" <Julia@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote in message
news:3D7F3236-7EDC-49AD-AB0A-AC5F693BADE4@mi crosoft.com...

Hi
>
I have changed my regional options on my computer to English (United
States)
(I used to have Swedish). I would print the value of the current time in a
textbox on my asp.net page. I use this function:
>
txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();
>
The time shown on the page is on the format 16:34 and I dont want that. I
want the american format. What can be wrong?
>
Thanks
Julia

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

Re: time format problem

Hey Julia,

What you want to do is change the locale for the page to American
English just before you output the date.

So what you do is this:

System.Threadin g.Thread.Curren tThread.Current Culture = new
System.Globaliz ation.CultureIn fo("en-US");
txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:40:02 -0800, Julia
<Julia@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:

>Hi
>
>I have changed my regional options on my computer to English (United States)
>(I used to have Swedish). I would print the value of the current time in a
>textbox on my asp.net page. I use this function:
>
>txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();
>
>The time shown on the page is on the format 16:34 and I dont want that. I
>want the american format. What can be wrong?
>
>Thanks
>Julia

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[Julia]

Re: time format problem

Hi

and thanks for all the answers!

Finally I added these to my config file:

<globalizatio n
requestEncoding ="utf-8"
responseEncodin g="utf-8"
culture="en-US "
uiCulture="en-US "
/>
This section will force the application to use the american time format, so
this will solve my problem.

The strange thing is that I run everything on my local machine (iis, sql,
client) and I did change my regional options to English but still the format
was in Swedish. Maybe I didnt restart my computer so I will try that today.

Thanks
Julia

"Rad [Visual C# MVP]" wrote:

Hey Julia,
>
What you want to do is change the locale for the page to American
English just before you output the date.
>
So what you do is this:
>
System.Threadin g.Thread.Curren tThread.Current Culture = new
System.Globaliz ation.CultureIn fo("en-US");
txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();
>
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:40:02 -0800, Julia
<Julia@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
>

Hi

I have changed my regional options on my computer to English (United States)
(I used to have Swedish). I would print the value of the current time in a
textbox on my asp.net page. I use this function:

txtTime.Text = DateTime.Now.To ShortTimeString ();

The time shown on the page is on the format 16:34 and I dont want that. I
want the american format. What can be wrong?

Thanks
Julia

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