Issue in converting date in european and US format in globalization

Question

User-715140818 posted

I am working on globalization project.In some scenario I want to convert date in european format and sometimes in US format.

I have developed method as follow.

public static string ToCultureDate(object oValue,string culture)

{

 System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultureinfo; 

 CultureInfo cultureinfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(culture);

 DateTime date = Convert.ToDateTime(oValue); 

 return date.ToString();

 }

In this method I try to pass date as object and culture as en-US or fr-FR and accordingly I should get short date format.

But I am getting error Unable to cast object of type 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label' to type 'System.IConvertible'.
Actually I am passing object as date and that date is stored in label.

Above method is called as under



lblPickupdate.Text=ToCultureDate(lblPickupdate,languageCulture);

where lblPickupdate is label which holds date.

 

 

Answer 1

User1224194097 posted

Create a Extension method for date conversion like this

public static class DateHelper
{
    public static string ToCultureDate(this string oValue, string culture)
    {
        return DateTime.Parse(oValue, new CultureInfo(culture)).ToString();
    }
}

Add that class to current project and use it like this

lblPickupdate.Text = lblPickupdate.Text.ToCultureDate("fr-FR");

Answer 2

User-715140818 posted

I am getting error {"String was not recognized as a valid DateTime."} 

when I debbuged it it shows oValue as 22/09/2010 11:00:00 and culture as "en-US"

Here is my method

public class Helper

{

public static string ToCultureDate(string oValue,string culture)

    {

        CultureInfo cultureinfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(culture);

        System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultureinfo;

 

        return DateTime.Parse(oValue, new CultureInfo(culture)).ToString();

 

        }

}

And I am calling method as like as follow.

lblPickupdate.Text =

Helper.ToCultureDate(lblPickupdate.Text, languageCulture);