Question

• I’m having a problem with an application on a specific server.

On every environment except the problem environment

The server correctly recognizes that all clients are in the UK and parses UK formatted dates:

DD/MM/YYYY

On the problem server

The problem only appears to happen on one server. This server seems to incorrectly require american dates:

MM/DD/YYYY

What I’ve tried already

• Adding a “globalization” section to web.config file to attempt to force en-GB culture
• Checking the “machine.config’s” globalization section (it says en-GB as well).
• I’ve checked that the clients are requesting en-GB as the prefered culture for the respnse.
• At Eoin’s suggestion I’ve also checked the regional settings for the server (they have the date set to dd/MM/yyyy which is correct).

What I cannot try

I’m using MS ASP.NET MVC which is automatically de-serializing the HTML form data into an object, so I can’t manually specify the date format — e.g. using DateTime.Parse(myDateStr, "dd/MM/yyyy") as the parsing is done by Microsoft MVC.

Is there anything else I can do. This is an intranet app, and all clients are in the UK.

Answer 1

You needs to do following two things.

1. Set Culture in web.config as given below

   uiCulture=”en-GB” culture=”en-GB” .

2. Set your form method to POST as I have mentioned below

   using (Html.BeginForm("DailyReport", "Reports", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "ActivityReport" }))
   

DailyReport is your controller action method, Reports is controller and most important thing is FormMethod.Post by setting form method to POST will solve your Date format problem.

Enjoy!