[RESOLVED] Convert.ToDateTime For Different Formats

Hi,

I'm currently working on project where the system is residing in LA, however I am testing it from my office in Rio.

What I want to do is collect a date from a form (as a string) and then save it in a variable as type DateTime.

(Please see code below).

Code:

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public System.DateTime Birthday
{
        get
        {
                System.DateTime dbBirthday = System.DateTime.MinValue;
                try
                {
                        dbBirthday = Convert.ToDateTime(this.txtbxBirthday.Text);
                }
                catch
                {
                        dbBirthday = System.DateTime.MinValue;
                }
                return dbBirthday;
        }
        set
        {
                this.txtbxBirthday.Text = value.ToString("mm/dd/yyyy");
        }
}

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now this code works perfectly well when being called from a PC that is setup with the local settings of an Americn PC, but not with those settings from a Brazilian PC - ie dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy

as we want to make this available to all, i am trying to save the value using the System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo object, but to no avail.

does aybody have any information on how to use these libraries?

thanks in advance,

Rodney

This is not the most professional way of doing it but why not just rearrange the string.

after about 5 hours of searching Google, i finally found and example of the System.Globalization.CultureInfo object.

Here is how it works:

Code:

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System.IFormatProvider dateFormat = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", true); 


public System.DateTime Birthday
{

get
        {
                System.DateTime dbBirthday = System.DateTime.MinValue;
                try
                {
                        dbBirthday = Convert.ToDateTime(this.txtbxBirthday.Text,dateFormat);
                }
                catch
                {
                        dbBirthday = System.DateTime.MinValue;
                }
                return dbBirthday;
        }
        set
        {
                this.txtbxBirthday.Text = value.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");
        }
}

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hope this helps all future readers.