Retrieving the System date and time settings

[Tull Clancey]

Hi all.

I'm having real trouble finding a simple solution for getting the system
date and time settings.

All I want to retrieve is the system short date format, is it dd/mm/yyyy or
mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd. I can find many articles talking about changing
date formats, but nothing for actually getting the setting.

Anything would be gratefully received! (VB.Net 2003/2005)

Cheers,
Tull.

 

[Guest]

well you may detect this with the DateTimeFormatInfo class

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo.aspx

to get the current culture settings ( as you need this for the above )

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.thread.currentculture.aspx


hth

Michel Posseth [MCP]

 

[Theo Verweij]

The ease of VB:
just use: My.Application.Culture.DateTimeFormat

You'll have all you need (and a lot more!)

 

[Larry]

Use Thread.CurrentCulture to get the settings.
You can google it to find it.

Larry