DateTime and CultureInfo

Question

I have this in my code:

var date1 = DateTime.ParseExact(date, "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

And when my current cultur is dutch (nl-NL) instead of May 1st I get January 5th.

I think the error is in the second parameter dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss.

Is there a way to fix this using the CultureInfo class?

Answer 1

You may try the following:

System.Globalization.CultureInfo cultureinfo =
        new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("nl-NL");
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(date, cultureinfo);

Answer 2

Use CultureInfo class to change your culture info.

var dutchCultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("nl-NL");
var date1 = DateTime.ParseExact(date, "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss", dutchCultureInfo);

Answer 3

InvariantCulture is similar to en-US, so i would use the correct CultureInfo instead:

var dutchCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("nl-NL");
var date1 = DateTime.ParseExact(date, "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss", dutchCulture);

Demo

And what about when the culture is en-us? Will I have to code for every single language there is out there?

If you want to know how to display the date in another culture like "en-us", you can use date1.ToString(CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US")).