MVC date formats - En-GB format

Question

User502787105 posted

I'm in the uk and when I go to add dates to a form using the model the dates are american format - can someone tell me the correct way to make the culutr en-gb - I tried adding this:-

<globalization uiCulture="en" culture="en-GB" />

I added that line above the web.config but it made no difference.

Thanks
Gregor

Answer 1

User197322208 posted

It should make .

How do you display the dates ? OR ... where do you find the problem ?

Answer 2

User1064071399 posted

I'm not familar with the way you do it in the web.config

What I do however where I need to display amounts in different culture's no matter the user's current settings is this:

123.456 ("C", en-US) -> $123.46

123.456 ("C", fr-FR) -> 123,46 €

123.456 ("C", ja-JP) -> ¥123

Answer 3

User401360897 posted

Put a Break Point and see the value of Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture in quick watch window or immediate window. 

Answer 4

User502787105 posted

Ok I have 2 dates which are required, start_date and end_date. The form loads with todays date populated in the start_date field fore example 31/05/2010 which is great - If I cut this value and paste it into the end_date it works just fine, however if I dont put a value into the end_date the validation firews and says "The value '05/31/2010' is not valid for Start Date" in the validation error text.

To recap its fine putting in 31/05/2010 unless the validation fires and then it will say its invalid and display the error in the US fomat.

Any ideas on how to fix that?

Thanks
Gregor

Answer 5

User-1200560727 posted

I think you will get the solution from this post: http://forums.asp.net/t/1514920.aspx

Answer 6

User502787105 posted

Any other ideas - surely I dont need to have a baspage in MVC as well - uuugh! 

Answer 7

User401360897 posted

Can you more explain this situation

Ok I have 2 dates which are required, start_date and end_date. The form loads with todays date populated in the start_date field fore example 31/05/2010 which is great - If I cut this value and paste it into the end_date it works just fine, however if I dont put a value into the end_date the validation firews and says "The value '05/31/2010' is not valid for Start Date" in the validation error text

 

Answer 8

User502787105 posted

Apologies - the reason the dates were invalid is because they actually were invalid - the jqueryUI script i was using wasnt using the EN-gb version and hence kept formatting the date to US version - I added the Uk version and it works now.