Convert DateTime with a specified language

Question

I am coding a MVC 5 internet application and am wanting to convert a DateTime to be displayed as a LocalTime where I have the language. This is for an Azure website.

Here is my code:

DateTime dateTimeUtcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
DateTime convertedDate = DateTime.SpecifyKind(dateTimeUtcNow, DateTimeKind.Utc);
DateTime dateTimeLocalTime = convertedDate.ToLocalTime();
return dateTimeLocalTime.ToString(new CultureInfo("en-NZ"));

The output from the above code is the exact same output as if I return the DateTime in UTC with no language culture specified.

How can I convert a DateTime in UTC for a local time where I have the culture language?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use the second argument to the toString function and use any language/culture you need...

You can use the "d" format instead of ToShortDateString according to MSDN...

So basically something like this to return as NewZ ealand English:

CultureInfo enAU = new CultureInfo("en-NZ");
dt.ToString("d", enAU);

you could modify your method to include the language and culture as a parameter

public static string ConvertDateTimeToDate(string dateTimeString, String langCulture) {

    CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo(langCulture);
    DateTime dt = DateTime.MinValue;

    if (DateTime.TryParse(dateTimeString, out dt))
    {
        return dt.ToString("d",culture);
    }
    return dateTimeString;
  }

You may also want to look at the overloaded tryParse method if you need to parse the string against a particular language/culture...