Why might my local machine be incorrectly formatting international dates?

Question

Here\'s a weird one...

I\'ve just seen a (previously passing) test fail because of extra spaces in a string representation of a date. The test in question has previo

Answer 1

I had the same issue in my Windows 10 machine, got "31. 1. 208". But using:

var format = "d.M.yyyy";

produces: 31.1.2018

it seams to be something with CultureInfo("sk-SK"):

Console.WriteLine(date.ToString("d", new CultureInfo("de-DE")));

produces: 31.01.2018

and

Console.WriteLine(date.ToString("d/M/yyyy", new CultureInfo("de-DE")));

produces: 31.1.2018

(in Windows Control Panel - Region, mine is set as "English - Canada" and short date: "dd/MM/yyyy".

It seems to be defined in the .Net Framework - see the spaces there:

I hope that helps.