We have an asp.net Core website which requires having different cultures available but we are having a problem when saving dates to the database due to different calendars.
How can we enforce the Gregorian calendar even if culture was changed?
private readonly CultureInfo[] _supportedCultures = {
new CultureInfo("ar"),
new CultureInfo("en")
};
what we want to is to make "ar" or any other culture use "en" dateformat...
Thank You
Well, you can always use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture/CultureInfo.InvariantUiCulture, or whatever your preferred culture is.
IStringLocalizer<T> has a .WithCulture(...) method, so you can create a localizer with that specific culture.
Something like this (untested):
IStringLocalizer<SharedResource> localizer = ..;
var invariantLocalizer = localizer.WithCulture(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
// where "ShowDate" is "Today is {0}" in the resx
var neutralLocalizer = invariantLocalizer["ShowDate", DateTime.Now];
In MVC Views you can define it globally for each view in Views/_ViewImports.cshtml/Views/_ViewStart.cshtml:
@inject Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.TelemetryConfiguration TelemetryConfiguration
@inject IHtmlLocalizer<Startup> Localizer
@{
var InvariantLocalizer = Localizer.WithCulture(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
Optionally you can also set the calendar of a given culture.
var current = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
current.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
as shown in the Dates and calendars.