Date according to culture [english and arabic]

Question

I have a date binded in a asp.net repeater control

<%# Eval("PublishedDate") %>

I have two cultures: English and Arabic.

currently I am getting this [29/04/35 07:00:00 م] date in arabic but i want following [5 يناير 2014] format

and in english I am getting [3/1/2014 7:00:00 PM] but i want following format [January 5, 2014]

Answer 1

Use resources by creating 2 local resource files one for English {PageName}.en.resx and the other for Arabic {PageName}.ar.resx and put the format in.

Steps:

• Create 2 local resources for the page, for example Default.aspx.en.resx and Default.aspx.ar.resx
• Add DateFormat item in each resource, in Arabic resource file DateFormat ==> d MMM yyyy and in English resource file DateFormat ==> MMM d,yyyy
• Change the binding expression in ASPX to be like this <%# Eval("PublishedDate", etLocalResourceObject("DateFormat").ToString()) %>
• last thing is to change Culture of the page to tell ASP.NET engine which local resource use

Answer 2

Have you looked into System.Globalization.CultureInfo and the associated format classes?