How to convert a Datetime string to a current culture datetime string

Question

I have string say "12/1/2011" in English US culture my current machine culture is English Uk which is "dd/mm/yyyy" format. How to convert the 12/1/2011 to 1/12/2011. I have tried the below format.

System.DateTime.Parse(result,System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture)               .ToString(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern) 

but i could not able to see any output.

-Lokesh.

Answer 1

DateTimeFormatInfo usDtfi = new CultureInfo("en-US", false).DateTimeFormat; DateTimeFormatInfo ukDtfi = new CultureInfo("en-GB", false).DateTimeFormat; string result = Convert.ToDateTime("12/01/2011", usDtfi).ToString(ukDtfi.ShortDatePattern); 

This will do the trick ^^