Changing Date format to en-us while culture is fr-ca

Question

I'm working on localizing a website in French. However I am not supposed to change the date format to French. It must remain as per en-us format even if the culture is set to fr-ca i.e, when rest of the contents are in French, the date format should still be in English(en-us).

Answer 1

To change how dates are formatted you could create a custom CultureInfo, based on an existing CultureInfo (in your case "fr-CA"), modifying only the date formats. I don't have any experience in this, but the linked aricle and this article explains how it's done. Supposedly, it's not too difficult.

I imagine that setting System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture to an instance of your custom CultureInfo (e.g. in the Page.Load event) should do the job.

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Or, use the CultureInfo class to specify culture on a per-string basis:

CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

Whenever you write a date to the page, use the following syntax:

myDate.ToString("d", culture);

or

string.Format(
  culture,
  "This is a string containing a date: {0:d}",
  myDate);

The CultureInfo class resides in the System.Globalization namespace and d in the above is the format in which to output the date. See John Sheehan's ".NET Format String Quick Reference" cheat sheet for more on format strings.