Question

i have the following date parsing in vb.net :

Dim SDate As Date = Format("yyyy-MM-dd", date1)

it’s worked fine in development , but when i host the application in IIS .Net v(4.0) it give me the following:

Conversion from string 2012-06-28 to type 'Date' is not valid.

…..

i tried many forms of date parsing , all of them worked fine in Development

but when I host them in IIS , it always give me error

thanks in advance,,,

Answer 1

I found great article about my problem

http://lesession.blogspot.com/2008/07/wrong-date-format-on-your-iis-website.html

the solution was to put the following in web.config:

  <globalization culture="en-GB"/>