Getting a short day name

Question

I was wondering on how to write a method that will return me a string which will contain the short day name, example:

public static string GetShortDayName(DayOfWeek day) 

now if i call:

string monday = GetShortDayName(DayOfWeek.Monday); 

I will get back "mo" if culture is en, or "lu" if culture is at example it.

Answer 1

You can use DateTimeFormatInfo.AbbreviatedDayNames. For example:

string[] names = culture.DateTimeFormat.AbbreviatedDayNames; string monday = names[(int) DayOfWeek.Monday]; 

Answer 2

You can use "ddd" in in a custom format string to get the short day name. For example.

DateTime.Now.ToString("ddd"); 

As suggestby @Loudenvier in comments.