Designing a culture independent birthdate input consisting of three select: year, month and day.
In .NET, how do I get the correct display order of the three for a given culture, ie.:
┌─────────────┬─┐ ┌──────────────┬─┐ ┌────────────┬─┐
│ Select year │v│ │ Select month │v│ │ Select day │v│
└─────────────┴─┘ └──────────────┴─┘ └────────────┴─┘
┌─────────────┬─┐ ┌──────────────┬─┐ ┌────────────┬─┐
│ Select day │v│ │ Select month │v│ │ Select year│v│
└─────────────┴─┘ └──────────────┴─┘ └────────────┴─┘
or
┌─────────────┬─┐ ┌──────────────┬─┐ ┌────────────┬─┐
│ Select month│v│ │ Select day │v│ │ Select year│v│
└─────────────┴─┘ └──────────────┴─┘ └────────────┴─┘
* UPDATE * Thanks to all for your answers, it made me come up with this little function:
Public Function GetDateElementAtPos(ByVal pos As Integer) As String
Return Mid(Me.myCultureInfo.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern.Split(Me.myCultureInfo.DateTimeFormat.DateSeparator)(pos), 1, 1).ToLower
End Function
Where myCultureInfo
represents a initialized Globalization.CultureInfo
. I use it like this:
Dim s as new stringbuilder
For i As Integer = 0 To 2
Select Case GetDateElementAtPos(i)
Case "y"
s.append(**year select html goes here**)
Case "m"
s.append(**month select html goes here**)
Case "d"
s.append(**day select html goes here**)
End Select
Next
Here you go:
CultureInfo c = ....;
var dtf = c.DateTimeFormat;
var fs = dtf.ShortDatePattern;
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