arabic datetime format

Question

_{Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:56 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Everyone,

Would like to ask why the output datetime format in Arabic locale seems to be not a valid date..

            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(1025);

            DateTime dateArabic = DateTime.Now;
            //Output: Date = {01/08/33 12:00:00 ص}

In French, it seems to look ok.

            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(1036);
            DateTime dateFrench = DateTime.Now;
            //Output: Date = {21/06/2012 00:00:00}

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards, Juan Genaro

All replies (6)

_{Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:30 AM ✅Answered}

use following piece of code to know exactly what is the pattern for each locale

CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("ar");
            string datepattern = culture.DateTimeFormat.LongDatePattern;

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Rohit Arora

_{Friday, June 22, 2012 7:38 AM ✅Answered}

According to RobitArora and Louis's suggestion, you will need to culture info's LongDatePattern format, then set the current thread's culture , if you cannot clear about how to apply this suggestion into codes, you can ref my this demo:

            CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("ar");
            string datepattern = culture.DateTimeFormat.LongDatePattern;
            DateTimeFormatInfo datetimeFormatInfo = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
            datetimeFormatInfo.LongDatePattern = "yyyy-MM-dd";
            culture.DateTimeFormat = datetimeFormatInfo;
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
            DateTime dateArabic = DateTime.Now;

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Mike Zhang[MSFT]
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_{Friday, June 22, 2012 10:16 AM ✅Answered}

Juan,

I'm no expert in Arabic, all I know that there is a special class to handle Arabic date an times.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.umalquracalendar.aspx

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Cor

_{Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:05 PM}

The general datetime format uses the ShortDatePattern, which is dd/MM/yy for arabic culture.

_{Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:53 PM}

Thanks a lot Guys! this helped.

Best Regards, Juan Genaro

_{Monday, June 25, 2012 2:54 AM}

You're welcome!

Mike Zhang[MSFT]
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