Get current date in gregorian even system regional settings changed

Question

User-374433941 posted

Hi i have this line of code to get current date value
Format(DateTime.Now.Date, "yyyy/MM/dd")
but this will get the date value according to current regional settings in my machine

like i  change the regional settings to ar-Sa  i am getting the hijri date
but i need if i change the regional settings also i want to get gregorian date

Answer 1

User1564875471 posted

This is how we do that in C#:

        DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
        Response.Write(dt.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd", new CultureInfo("ar-JO")));

Here i used arabic jordan culture which doesn't uses Hijri calendar.You can also use any other culture like en-US.

Answer 2

User-374433941 posted

now my current culture is ar-Sa

Here i  am getiing the date as "1431/10/25" or i will get hijri date from hijri calender control 

Dim departDate As String = Format(DateTime.Now.Date, "yyyy/MM/dd")

here i want to convert  this hijri date into gregorian format

 Dim _d As String = departDate.ToString(New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"))

Note now my current culture is ar-Sa

Answer 3

User-374433941 posted

Hi any onen post the write code for converting Hijri date to gregorian date

Answer 4

User1564875471 posted

The code in my first reply works well, i converted it to VB.NET for your reference:

Dim departDate As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim _d As String=departDate.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd", New CultureInfo("ar-JO"))