[RESOLVED] Convert.ToDateTime For Different Formats

[stingrae]

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).

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");
	}
}

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

[Tewl]

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

[stingrae]

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

Here is how it works:

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");
	}
}

hope this helps all future readers.