Writing Date Value

Question

I am writing some date values in US format (MMDDYYYY) using my programme to a csv file in c#. This is a WPF Application. If a user has different regional settings like UK in their computers the date values are flipping. how can i make sure that no matter what the users regional settings are my application will write the date values in the US format?

Answer 1

You can specify the format when converting the date to a string (I'm not sure if that's how you are displaying the date, though):

DateTime d = DateTime.Now;
string s = d.ToString("MMddyyyy");

For more detail on the date format string see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

Answer 2

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
Console.WriteLine(dateToDisplay.ToString("MMddyyyy"));