Displaying proper date format depending on culture

Question

I am using a control for a popup calendar date picker. This uses a javascript function, SetText, to set the textbox to the given date. I can\'t change anything in the cale

Answer 1

As you are using ASP.NET then you may also be using ASP.NET Ajax. If so, there are two properties on the ScriptManager that are of use to you:

EnableScriptLocalization - Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the ScriptManager control renders localized versions of script files.

EnableScriptGlobalization - Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the ScriptManager control renders script that supports parsing and formatting of culture-specific information.

When you enable both of these (set to true) then ASP.NET Ajax extenders etc. should automatically be localised into the culture specified in web.config:

For instance, setting this will localise the AjaxControlToolkit Calendar into your specificed culture.

Even if you are NOT using ASP.NET Ajax adding a ScriptManager and enabling localisation will give you a useful javascript variable called __cultureInfo that contains a JSON array of localised formate, such as currencies, dates etc.

"CalendarType":1,"Eras":[1],"TwoDigitYearMax":2029,"IsReadOnly":true},"DateSeparator":"/","FirstDayOfWeek":1,"CalendarWeekRule":0,"FullDateTimePattern":"dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss","LongDatePattern":"dd MMMM yyyy","LongTimePattern":"HH:mm:ss","MonthDayPattern":"dd MMMM","PMDesignator":"PM","RFC1123Pattern":"ffffd, dd MMM yyyy HH\u0027:\u0027mm\u0027:\u0027ss etc....