Get current culture

Vote:

Hi,

I have a site in english and I want to show the dateformat based on culture e.g. en-US (mm/dd/yyyy) and en-GB (dd/mm/yyyy) how can I get this information in EPiServer?

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Cheers

Ian

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Oct 08, 2008 17:58

Vote:

One way to do it is in codebehind, here is a simple example, storing the date in "theDate" :-)

string currentCulture = EPiServer.Globalization.GlobalizationSettings.CultureLanguageCode; // fetch the current culture

EPiServer.Globalization.ContentLanguage.Instance.SetCulture("en-US"); // set the culture

string theDate = CurrentPage.Changed.ToShortDateString(); // grab the date

EPiServer.Globalization.ContentLanguage.Instance.SetCulture(currentCulture); // reset culture again

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Edited, Oct 08, 2008 19:01