Convert Arabic AM/PM to english AM/PM in ASP.NET

Question

I have below code to convert date time from text to 12 hours date format, But showing Arabic AM & PM .

How to get the result in English AM/PM format

Code:

string iDate = "02/06/2018 16:58:42";         
DateTime CHECKTIME = Convert.ToDateTime(iDate);
Label1.Text=CHECKTIME.ToString();

Result:

02/06/2018 04:58:42 م

Expected Result:

02/06/2018 04:58:42 PM

[Formatting Date and Time for a Specific Culture](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5hh873ya(v=vs.100).aspx) — Renatas M., Jul 25 '18 at 09:38
Here u goo https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5798908/how-to-produce-localized-date-string-with-cultureinfo — CorrM, Jul 25 '18 at 09:41

Soner Gönül · Answer 1 · 2018-07-25T11:36:14.167

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Looks like your CurrentCulture is based on some arabic culture and that's why you get م character as a PMDesignator as an output.

You can always specify your format and culture as a parameters in your ToString method by the way to get the result you want.

Label1.Text = CHECKTIME.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
// I assume 02 is day and 06 is month

edited Jul 25 '18 at 11:36

answered Jul 25 '18 at 09:58

Soner Gönül

04:58:42 06/02/2018 PM => i am getting like this with "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt" formating – Sam Bin Ham Jul 25 '18 at 10:08
@SamBinHam Are you _really_ sure? The code couldn't generate that output. Maybe it can be a [right to left](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left) issue? – Soner Gönül Jul 25 '18 at 11:38
Its fine now, When i change the language and App pools's identity to Local server – Sam Bin Ham Jul 25 '18 at 11:54
@SamBinHam Good to hear. – Soner Gönül Jul 25 '18 at 11:55

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