currently i obtain the below result from the following C# line of code when in es-MX Culture
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new
CultureInfo("es-mx");
<span><%=DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()%></span>
i would like to obtain the following
do i need to Build my own culture?
You don't need to build your own culture. You only need to change the property DateTimeFormat.DayNames and DateTimeFormat.MonthNames in the current culture.
i.e.
string[] newNames = { "Lunes", "Martes", "Miercoles", "Jueves", "Viernes", "Sabado", "Domingo" };
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.DayNames = newNames;
However, it's weird that en-US show months and days with the first uppercase letter and for mx-ES not.
Hope it helps!.
The pattern of LongDate for Spanish (Mexico) is
dddd, dd' de 'MMMM' de 'yyyy
according to Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.LongDatePattern. I guess you just have to manually convert the initial letters of the day and month to uppercase or you can use Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase and then replace "De" with "de".
first two Solutions works fine but what if we would like to extend this to any culture so i came up with this approach i change the current culture date time arrays into TitleCase
private void SetDateTimeFormatNames()
{
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.DayNames = ConvertoToTitleCase(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.DayNames);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames = ConvertoToTitleCase(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames);
}
private string[] ConvertoToTitleCase(string[] arrayToConvert)
{
for (int i = 0; i < arrayToConvert.Length; i++)
{
arrayToConvert[i] = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(arrayToConvert[i]);
}
return arrayToConvert;
}
how can this be improved with out the Loop?
a little late but this work for me!
public static string GetFecha()
{
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("es-EC");
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
// maldita sea!
string strDate = culture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString());
return strDate.Replace("De", "de");
}
