How to get current system datetime format in windows application.

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i want to get format of date time from my system.
i will either shortdate or longdate.

What I have tried:

string sysFormat = CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;

Posted 11-May-17 23:38pm

Vibhusha Devani

Updated 12-May-17 0:58am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2017-05-12T00:52:00

Solution 2

See CultureInfo.DateTimeFormat Property (System.Globalization)[^].

Posted 12-May-17 0:52am

Richard MacCutchan

CPallini · Answer 2 · 2017-05-12T00:01:00

Solution 1

What about

C#

string sDate = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString(); // get current date as 'short date' formatted string

?

Posted 12-May-17 0:01am

CPallini

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Vibhusha Devani 12-May-17 6:07am

My system formate is dd-MMM-yy.

on my and your code it get all time "dd-mm-yy" like this 12/05/2017.

if i will change formate on my system then also it gives same formate "dd-mm-yy" at all time.

CPallini 12-May-17 6:51am

Then you probably have to call
DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MMM-yy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

Vibhusha Devani 13-May-17 1:14am

yes it's right but my requirement is when i change my date time format on my pc then that changed format i have to get on my windows application.

Member 14060363 22-Feb-21 1:04am

if you have got the answer please help here

Member 15073686 22-Feb-21 4:56am

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace system_date_and_time_format
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
timer1.Start();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi = ci.DateTimeFormat;
string[] SystemDateTimePatterns = new string[250];
int i = 0;
foreach (string name in dtfi.GetAllDateTimePatterns('d'))
{
SystemDateTimePatterns[i] = name;
i++;
}
string[] myDateTimeFormat = { "dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss tt", "dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss tt", "dd-MM-yyyy" };
MessageBox.Show(myDateTimeFormat[0].ToString());
for(int j =0;j

Bhuban _Shrestha · Answer 3 · 2017-05-12T00:58:00

Solution 3

C#

string now = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy")

- is a delimiter you can change with whatever character you like.

Posted 12-May-17 0:58am

Bhuban _Shrestha