Cannot convert from Hijri Date to Gregorian date (

Question

Now i am working with Hijri dates and trying to convert them to Gregorian dates using the following code :

            string HijriDate;
            string[] allFormats ={"yyyy/MM/dd","yyyy/M/d",
                "dd/MM/yyyy","d/M/yyyy",
                "dd/M/yyyy","d/MM/yyyy","yyyy-MM-dd",
                "yyyy-M-d","dd-MM-yyyy","d-M-yyyy",
                "dd-M-yyyy","d-MM-yyyy","yyyy MM dd",
                "yyyy M d","dd MM yyyy","d M yyyy",
                "dd M yyyy","d MM yyyy","MM/dd/yyyy"};
            CultureInfo enCul = new CultureInfo("en-US");
            CultureInfo arCul = new CultureInfo("ar-SA");
            arCul.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.HijriCalendar(); 
            DateTime tempDate = DateTime.ParseExact(HijriDate, allFormats, arCul.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);
            return tempDate.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");

this code is working fine with all dates except the date that has 30th day in month like the following :

'30/10/1433' , '30/12/1432' or '30/05/1433' etc ..... so how to handle and convert that date with its corresponding Gregorian :S

Answer 1

here is the code it is working well now on this code I'm returning the date from the function as string not as datetime, but you can simply using reuturn datetime type instead on string

    public string ConvertDateCalendar(DateTime DateConv, string Calendar, string DateLangCulture)
{
    System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo DTFormat;
    DateLangCulture = DateLangCulture.ToLower();
    /// We can't have the hijri date writen in English. We will get a runtime error - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:01:45 PM -

    if (Calendar == "Hijri" && DateLangCulture.StartsWith("en-"))
    {
        DateLangCulture = "ar-sa";
    }

    /// Set the date time format to the given culture - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:04:22 PM -
    DTFormat = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(DateLangCulture, false).DateTimeFormat;

    /// Set the calendar property of the date time format to the given calendar - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:04:52 PM -
    switch (Calendar)
    {
        case "Hijri":
            DTFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.HijriCalendar();
            break;

        case "Gregorian":
            DTFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar();
            break;

        default:
            return "";
    }

    /// We format the date structure to whatever we want - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:05:39 PM -
    DTFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd/MM/yyyy";
    return (DateConv.Date.ToString("f", DTFormat));
}

To call this Method here are an example

    ltrCalValue.Text = ConvertDateCalendar(CalHijri.SelectedDate, "Gregorian", "en-US");

to call the Hijri

    ltrCalValue.Text = ConvertDateCalendar(CalHijri.SelectedDate, "Hijri", "en-US");

Answer 2

10th and 12nd months in Hirji don't have 30th day, so that date is invalid.

Answer 3

Max Value of a days in a month can be calculated by DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month)

and use it this way

int result = DateTime.DaysInMonth(2012, 2); // returns 29 being a leap year

but

int result = DateTime.DaysInMonth(2011, 2) // returns 28 being a non-leap year