Question

I’m trying to format the date and time on my app based on the users set culture info, however, every help resource I see keeps suggesting that I have to manually enter each culture locale in code. For example, if I wanted en-UK I would have to manually add new CultureInfo(“en-UK”); with something like new CultureInfo(“en-UK”);.

Is there a way to just tap into the currently set culture on the phone without me having to actually type the rtc culture info in? Something that might work like “date = ConvertToLocalCultureFormat(date);”?

Answer 1

I don’t know if this works on WinPhone7, but you could use

 CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name

which return the name of the CurrentCulture of the current thread (en-UK or whatever your app runs in)

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However this should not be necessary.
If you convert your datetime to a string in this way:

  DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
  // Converts dt, formatted using the ShortDatePattern
  // and the CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.
  string dateInString = dt.ToString("d");

you should get the conversion in the right CultureInfo of your phone.