Retrieving the System date and time settings

[Tull Clancey]

Hi all.

I'm having real trouble finding a simple solution for getting the system
date and time settings.

All I want to retrieve is the system short date format, is it dd/mm/yyyy or
mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd. I can find many articles talking about changing
date formats, but nothing for actually getting the setting.

Anything would be gratefully received! (VB.Net 2003/2005)

Cheers,
Tull.

[M. Posseth]

RE: Retrieving the System date and time settings

well you may detect this with the DateTimeFormatI nfo class

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ormatinfo.aspx

to get the current culture settings ( as you need this for the above )

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ntculture.aspx


hth

Michel Posseth [MCP]






"Tull Clancey" wrote:

Hi all.
>
I'm having real trouble finding a simple solution for getting the system
date and time settings.
>
All I want to retrieve is the system short date format, is it dd/mm/yyyy or
mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd. I can find many articles talking about changing
date formats, but nothing for actually getting the setting.
>
Anything would be gratefully received! (VB.Net 2003/2005)
>
Cheers,
Tull.
>
>
>

[Theo Verweij]

Re: Retrieving the System date and time settings

The ease of VB:
just use: My.Application. Culture.DateTim eFormat

You'll have all you need (and a lot more!)

Tull Clancey wrote:

Hi all.
>
I'm having real trouble finding a simple solution for getting the system
date and time settings.
>
All I want to retrieve is the system short date format, is it dd/mm/yyyy or
mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd. I can find many articles talking about changing
date formats, but nothing for actually getting the setting.
>
Anything would be gratefully received! (VB.Net 2003/2005)
>
Cheers,
Tull.
>
>

[Larry]

Re: Retrieving the System date and time settings

Use Thread.CurrentC ulture to get the settings.
You can google it to find it.

Larry



"Theo Verweij" <tverweij@xs4al l.nlwrote in message
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The ease of VB:
just use: My.Application. Culture.DateTim eFormat
>
You'll have all you need (and a lot more!)
>
Tull Clancey wrote:

>Hi all.
>>
>I'm having real trouble finding a simple solution for getting the system
>date and time settings.
>>
>All I want to retrieve is the system short date format, is it dd/mm/yyyy
>or mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd. I can find many articles talking about
>changing date formats, but nothing for actually getting the setting.
>>
>Anything would be gratefully received! (VB.Net 2003/2005)
>>
>Cheers,
>Tull.