Change date format in whole application

Question

I am working on asp.net mvc2 application. Problem is that when i am displaying date in format MM/dd/yyyy application work, but i must display the date in format dd/MM/yyyy to user. I set date in this format, but then i have problem with web service because it expect date format in MM/dd/yyyy, and i always get an error.

First i thought to write simple method that would convert date from one format to another ,and display in dd/MM/yyyy . But i have to match methods that use date, and i will have to make changes at many places.

I tried to use globalization in web config file like

    <system.web>
        <globalization 
             requestEncoding="utf-8"
             responseEncoding="utf-8"
             culture="en-GB"
             uiCulture="en-GB" 
        />
    </system.web>

But that did not work for me. Is there some way to change date format when i display to the user, and then web service can accept it?

Thanks

Does this help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4(v=vs.110).aspx — Marthijn, Nov 14 '14 at 08:23
Its MM (month) not mm (minutes). Setting the culture on the server should be fine, or you can create a custom model binder [Refer example here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26813345/wrong-dateformat-with-jquery-datepicker/26813682#26813682) — , Nov 14 '14 at 08:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 10:26

In my opinion en-GB is the correct setting for culture and uiCulture since this is the culture which has the date format you want to show to the user: dd/MM/yyyy

In those places where you are calling an API which requires the MM/dd/yyyy you should specify the format explicitly as MM/dd/yyyy like this:

myDate.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

I put the CultureInfo.InvariantCulture there so that there is no chance that the serialization will be affected by future changes in the culture and uiCulture settings for the application.

Change date format in whole application

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