Question

Now i am working with Hijri dates and trying to convert them to Gregorian dates using the following code :

string HijriDate;
string[] allFormats ={"yyyy/MM/dd","yyyy/M/d",
    "dd/MM/yyyy","d/M/yyyy",
    "dd/M/yyyy","d/MM/yyyy","yyyy-MM-dd",
    "yyyy-M-d","dd-MM-yyyy","d-M-yyyy",
    "dd-M-yyyy","d-MM-yyyy","yyyy MM dd",
    "yyyy M d","dd MM yyyy","d M yyyy",
    "dd M yyyy","d MM yyyy","MM/dd/yyyy"};
CultureInfo enCul = new CultureInfo("en-US");
CultureInfo arCul = new CultureInfo("ar-SA");
arCul.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.HijriCalendar(); 
DateTime tempDate = DateTime.ParseExact(HijriDate, allFormats, arCul.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces);
return tempDate.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");

this code is working fine with all dates except the date that has 30th day in month like the following :

30/10/1433, 30/12/1432 or 30/05/1433 etc. so how to handle and convert that date with its corresponding Gregorian

Answer 1

here is the code it is working well
now on this code I’m returning the date from the function as string not as datetime, but you can simply using return datetime type instead on string

public string ConvertDateCalendar(DateTime DateConv, string Calendar, string DateLangCulture)
{
    System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo DTFormat;
    DateLangCulture = DateLangCulture.ToLower();
    /// We can't have the hijri date writen in English. We will get a runtime error - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:01:45 PM -

    if (Calendar == "Hijri" && DateLangCulture.StartsWith("en-"))
    {
        DateLangCulture = "ar-sa";
    }

    /// Set the date time format to the given culture - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:04:22 PM -
    DTFormat = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(DateLangCulture, false).DateTimeFormat;

    /// Set the calendar property of the date time format to the given calendar - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:04:52 PM -
    switch (Calendar)
    {
        case "Hijri":
            DTFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.HijriCalendar();
            break;

        case "Gregorian":
            DTFormat.Calendar = new System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar();
            break;

        default:
            return "";
    }

    /// We format the date structure to whatever we want - LAITH - 11/13/2005 1:05:39 PM -
    DTFormat.ShortDatePattern = "dd/MM/yyyy";
    return (DateConv.Date.ToString("f", DTFormat));
}

To call this Method here are an example

ltrCalValue.Text = ConvertDateCalendar(CalHijri.SelectedDate, "Gregorian", "en-US");

To call the Hijri

ltrCalValue.Text = ConvertDateCalendar(CalHijri.SelectedDate, "Hijri", "en-US");