bindings & date format

mehdi62b · August 27th, 2004, 05:12 AM

the way I told works for every regional settings.
do you have any problem somewhere?can you provide me with more info?
(regional settings is assigned to the control globally,although you can
change it everywhere you need locally).
HtH.

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Mehdi.:)

melvik · August 28th, 2004, 03:57 AM

Hi Mehdi:
tnx for ur Mess & sorry for my delay! im pretty busy these days.

I knew {0:d}. but my date field came in string format like "830523" & I should mask it to 83/05/23.
thats why I asked here.
Tnx in advance.

& Dear Devon:
Regional Settings is a cliend side & its just a windows setting. it can NOT me my answer!

Always:),
Hovik Melkomian.

mehdi62b · August 28th, 2004, 06:23 AM

Hi Hovik,
IMO if you work with DateTime it would be much better
Have a look at this ...

Code:

DateTime dt=new DateTime(1382,2,28);
CultureInfo MyCulture =  new CultureInfo("fa-IR");//persian culture
TextBox1.Text=dt.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd",MyCulture);

although this culture wasnt installed in .NET properly!!!(it acts like en-US)
but as you see I use yyyy/MM/dd for my pattern to simulate persian date
correcly...
for format string you can change your string variable like below

Code:

string m="13820228";
m=m.Insert(4,"/");
m=m.Insert(7,"/");
TextBox1.Text=m;

anyway as you see its better to use DateTime ...
(your date field in your datasource should be as a datetime type
instead nvarchar or ...)
HtH.

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Mehdi.:)