C# Convert DateTime in the CurrentCulture

Question

How to get CurrectCulture and force converting and converting back a DateTime in this culture. I have tried

var myDate = DateTime.Parse(myDate , CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

but it does't work. then I suppose that I must specify the CurrentCulture.

It may sound stupid, but isn't the current culture used by default if you don't pass in a culture explicitly? — Thorsten Dittmar, Mar 18 '14 at 09:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '14 at 09:14

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Try This:

 var myDate = DateTime.Parse(myDate, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

answered Mar 18 '14 at 09:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 09:17

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Use this CultureInfo.CurrentCulture Property represents the culture used by the current thread.

var myDate = DateTime.Parse(myDate , CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

answered Mar 18 '14 at 09:17

Nagaraj S

Could you explain why you're not using `CurrentUICulture`? – Thorsten Dittmar Mar 18 '14 at 09:21
@ThorstenDittmar any difference between them – Nagaraj S Mar 18 '14 at 09:24
As far as I understand there actually could be. One is the info "that represents the current user interface culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time", the other "represents the culture used by the current thread". I wonder when to use which. – Thorsten Dittmar Mar 18 '14 at 09:28
@ThorstenDittmar i think here `CurrentUICulture` would be fine, i am right?? – Nagaraj S Mar 18 '14 at 09:33
I don't know! I am asking you as I am really interested. I'd probably have used `CurrentUICulture` for display as it would be coherent with the other resources, but I seriously don't know! – Thorsten Dittmar Mar 18 '14 at 09:51

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