Unless you change this,
System::Threading::Thread::CurrentThread->CurrentCulture will give you a
CultureInfo object for the current culture.

You can create new culture objects like this

   new System::Globalization::CultureInfo("de-DE")

Once you ha ve this cultureInfo object, you can use it's DateTimeFormat
member which has properties like ShortDatePattern.

  Console.WriteLine(new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE").DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern);

  Should return dd.MM.yyyy

CultureInfo as well as DateTimeFormat implement IFormatProvider. Therefore,
you can also use them in String::Format like this:

  Console.WriteLine(String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-GB"), "{0}",
DateTime.Now));

HTH

Marcus Heege