String.Format - WeekdayName Replacement

[firstdivision]

Hi,

Since this code:

WeekdayName(DayOfWeek.Monday, True)

returns "Sun" (i.e. Sunday). I'd like to find a way to get String.Format (or some other method from the Date namespace) to do the same thing (return the abbriviated day of the week). My guess is that the error in the above code is some sort of combination of old Visual Basic function, that FirstDayofWeek thing, and whatever.

I've gotten around it by using:

Left(MyDateVariable.DayOfWeek.ToString, 3)

which is working pretty well, but there must be a .NET way to do it.

Thanks,
-FD

 

[ca8msm]

Yes there is a way:

Response.Write(System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.AbbreviatedDayNames(System.DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek))

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[firstdivision]

Ah ha, I knew it. Takes a bit of work to get there though huh? lol.

Thanks ca8msm.


-FD

 

[ca8msm]

Yeah, you might want to add an import for "System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo" otherwise it becomes a bit of a mouthful!


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[firstdivision]

Man, there's all kinds of neat stuff down in there. Such as:

      Dim Culture As System.Globalization.CultureInfo
      For Each Culture In System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultures(Globalization.CultureTypes.AllCultures)
         Response.Write(Culture.EnglishName & "<br>")
      Next

or even better

      Dim Culture As System.Globalization.CultureInfo
      For Each Culture In System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultures(Globalization.CultureTypes.AllCultures)
         Response.Write(Culture.NativeName & "<br>")
      Next

-FD

 

[chiph]

Looks like we have another convert to writing world-ready applications!

Chip H.


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