I'm wanting to put a DateTime in to the config file, however, I want the DateTime expressed in a specific way. I've seen examples of using a DateTime in a ConfigurationElement (like the example below). The examples I've seen all have the date expressed in American format. I want to ensure that date is understandable by all regardless of who they are so I want to use yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
as the format.
How do I do that when using a class derived from ConfigurationElement?
class MyConfigElement : ConfigurationElement
{
[ConfigurationProperty("Time", IsRequired=true)]
public DateTime Time
{
get
{
return (DateTime)this["Time"];
}
set
{
this["Time"] = value;
}
}
}
I guess you can use the following:
[ConfigurationProperty("Time", IsRequired=true)]
public DateTime Time
{
get
{
return DateTime.ParseExact(
this["Time"].ToString(),
"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss",
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
set
{
this["Time"] = value.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
}
}
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