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Asked: 2026-05-24T13:43:15+00:00

In the Application_BeginRequest() method of global.asax.cs in my ASP.NET MVC project there is code:

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In the Application_BeginRequest() method of global.asax.cs in my ASP.NET MVC project there is code:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(EnCultureKey);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(EnCultureKey);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat = new CultureInfo(EnGBCultureKey).DateTimeFormat;

The variables are 

private const string EnCultureKey = "en-US";
private const string EnGBCultureKey = "en-GB";

On the dev environment all the dates are in DD/MM/YYYY format, but on the test environment they are in MM/DD/YYYY format.

Could You please advise me on what could be the cause of this difference?

UPDATE:

Please take a look at Setting Culture for ASP.NET MVC application on VS dev server and IIS

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you do want to override these settings for all your pages (instead of giving the User a choice) then the standard way is a setting in web.config :

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

    The MSDN page also points you to overriding InitializeCulture() if you want to use code.

    InitializeCulture() happens early but I suspect that Application_BeginRequest happens even earlier and that its effects are overridden.

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