Question

I have a Web Application which at various points makes users enter dates and also displays dates to users. When debugging (and when the site is running on our test and staging servers) the date formats appear in dd/mm/yyyy format (when using DateTime.ToShortDateString()). These servers (and my dev environment have “English (United Kingdom)” set as the language under the windows regional options. All good so far. However, on the live server dates appear in the format mm/dd/yyyy even though the live server still has the language set to “English (United Kindgom)”. I’ve seen this question which explains how to parse the date in a specific format and I already know how to get the date in the required string format (DateTime.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")) but am wondering what other OS setting on the live server is causing this discrepancy?
I’ve also seen this question, but it doesn’t seem to answer my question.

Some additional information: on the dev, test and staging environments
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name=”en-US”
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name=”en-GB”

And on the live environment
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name=”en-US”
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name=”en-US”

Answer 1

Have you checked the globalization section of web.config?

You can set it declaratively like so:

    <globalization uiCulture="en-GB" culture="en-GB" />

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz9tc508.aspx