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Nugnet - 28 Jun 2005 17:52 GMT

Hi,
I have an ASP.NET web application that I want to be locale sensitive. I
set my regional options to be English (United States) and rebooted my
machine (normally have English(United Kingdom setting)).
I then ran the web app and on a page where I wanted to display a
default date of the current date, I had a call to the .NET framework
method DateTime.ToShortDateString().
The date that was displayed on the page still used the English (United
Kingdom) date format (i.e. dd/mm/yyyy).
Is there some other setting required in ASP.NET to display the current
locales date format. I wrote a small app to display the CurrentLocale
and CurrentUILocale and they both were English (United States).

Thank you in advance for any help
John

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 28 Jun 2005 19:01 GMT

ASP.NET is running in the context of the ASP.NET user on the server, not of
your user account's settings -- so the setting you did would not be expected
to control.

You can set the CurrentCulture to get the change you would like to show up,
perhaps off of the http accept language?

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> Hi,
> I have an ASP.NET web application that I want to be locale sensitive. I
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> Thank you in advance for any help
> John

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Mihai N. - 29 Jun 2005 08:09 GMT

> I have an ASP.NET web application that I want to be locale sensitive.

Usualy a web application should be sensitive to the language of the browser
doing the request, not the one of the hosting server.
You might be trying to solve the wrong problem.

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Klarissa - 15 Jul 2005 08:29 GMT

Hi
I have the exact same problem and would appreciate it if you would let me
know if you managed to solve the problem. I would think that the formats for
the ASP page should be determined by the requesting browser language settings
but it is clearly not.
Thanks

> Hi,
> I have an ASP.NET web application that I want to be locale sensitive. I
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> Thank you in advance for any help
> John

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Mihai N. - 16 Jul 2005 06:18 GMT

> I have the exact same problem and would appreciate it if you would let me
> know if you managed to solve the problem.
> I would think that the formats for the ASP page should be determined by
> the requesting browser language settings but it is clearly not.

It is. If for your application it is not, it is a problem on the application
side.
The original request was for the ASP application running on the server to
answer with the settings matching the client OS (not the client browser).
The browser and the OS locales are independent (you have to set them
separately). This is inlike Mac OS X, where the system also affects the
browser (somethimes a good thing, sometimes not).

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 19 Jul 2005 15:50 GMT

Actually, by default Windows sets the browser's lang to the user locale (but
this can be overridden).

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>> I have the exact same problem and would appreciate it if you would let me
>> know if you managed to solve the problem.
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> separately). This is inlike Mac OS X, where the system also affects the
> browser (somethimes a good thing, sometimes not).

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