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AA2e72E - 20 Aug 2007 14:34 GMT

Why does System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames
return 13 elements? Why does it not use the cuurent culture?

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Göran Andersson - 20 Aug 2007 14:48 GMT

> Why does System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames
> return 13 elements? Why does it not use the cuurent culture?

RTFM ;)

DateTimeFormatInfo.MonthNames Property

Property Value
A one-dimensional array of type String containing the culture-specific
full names of the months. In a 12-month calendar, the 13th element of
the array is an empty string. The array for InvariantInfo contains
"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
"August", "September", "October", "November", "December", and "".

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Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP ) - 20 Aug 2007 15:50 GMT

Hi,

> Why does System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames
> return 13 elements? Why does it not use the cuurent culture?

I do not know of any culture that has 13 months.

Now I do not know the rationale behind using a final empty value, somebody
has a clue?

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Mythran - 20 Aug 2007 16:43 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> Now I do not know the rationale behind using a final empty value, somebody
> has a clue?

A calendar system that has 13 months is a "reformed" calendar that allows an
equal # of days spread across the 13 months (28 days x 13 months = 364
calendar days).

Checkout "Calendar reform" on wikipedia for a more in-depth explanation :)

HTH,
Mythran

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Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP ) - 20 Aug 2007 19:23 GMT

Hi,

>> Hi,
>>
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>
> Checkout "Calendar reform" on wikipedia for a more in-depth explanation :)

Thanks for the link!

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