problems formatting dates in polish

Question

I am having problems with date formatting for a website aimed at Polish Clients. When entering a calendar entry it is switching the month and the date. e.g it puts the entry in 7th September instead of 9th July.

The problem seems to be a datetime.parse statement as follows

DateTime.Parse(txtCalendarDate.Text)

This supposedly uses the current culture which is Polish. Polish has the day/month the right way round so why is it switching them?

Please assist.

What is the value of `txtCalendarDate.Text` _exactly_ and what is your `CurrentCulture`? — Soner Gönül, Jul 13 '15 at 08:34
Why don't you use `txtCalendarDate.Value` which is _already_ a `DateTime`? — Soner Gönül, Jul 13 '15 at 09:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '15 at 10:15

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I finally solved this by doing System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd/MM/yyyy"; in my global.asax. It was yyyy/MM/dd for Polish

answered Jul 13 '15 at 10:15

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