DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek.ToString() with CultureInfo
C#asp.netDatetimeCultureinfoC# Problem Overview
I have the code:
DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek.ToString()
That give's me the english day of the week name, I want to have the german version, how to add CultureInfo here to get the german day of the week name?
C# Solutions
Solution 1 - C#
var culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE");
var day = culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek);
Solution 2 - C#
You can use the DateTimeFormat.DayNames
property of the german CultureInfo
.
For example:
CultureInfo german = new CultureInfo("de-DE");
string sunday = german.DateTimeFormat.DayNames[(int)DayOfWeek.Sunday];
Solution 3 - C#
This is the solution in Visual Basic
Dim GermanCultureInfo As Globalization.CultureInfo = New Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE")
Return GermanCultureInfo.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Sunday)
The function of the solution is Obsolete by the way
DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd", new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE"))
Solution 4 - C#
DayOfWeek
is an enumeration, so the ToString
method on it is not culture sensitive.
You will need to write a function to convert the Enum value to a corresponding string in German, if you insist on using DayOfWeek
:
string DayOfWeekGerman(DayOfWeek dow)
{
switch(dow)
{
case(DayOfWeek.Sunday)
return "German Sunday";
case(DayOfWeek.Monday)
return "German Monday";
...
}
}
A better approach is to use ToString
from DateTime
directly:
CultureInfo german = new CultureInfo("de-DE");
string dayName = DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd", german);
Solution 5 - C#
I like this one:
public static class DateTimeExtension
{
public static string GetDayOfWeek(this DateTime uiDateTime, CultureInfo culture = null)
{
if (culture == null)
{
culture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture;
}
return culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(uiDateTime.DayOfWeek);
}
}
And according to your question:
var culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE");
var day = uiDateTime.GetDayOfWeek(culture);