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The time separator
DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss");
is a common mystake if you want to transmit to someone or to be sure that you have something like "HH:mm:ss" because the character (:) is not just a colon, it's a time separator wich depend on the locale.
Here is a list of culture where the (:) change into a dot (.)
it-IT : Italian (Italy)
fo-FO : Faroese (Faroe Islands)
bn-BD : Bengali (Bangladesh)
ml-IN : Malayalam (India)
bn-IN : Bengali (India)
To workaround you can use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture or escape the colon character.
... and same story for the date separator "/" but this one is at this time the same for every culture.
October 4th, 2010 - 06:27
In bn-BD culture Date separator is “-”.
How can I get “/” separator instead of “-” separator using bn-BD culture?
October 7th, 2010 - 11:25
Hi, you can escape the date separator with a double “\”
DateTime.Now.ToString("dd\\/MM\\/yyyy");and if you need to change the date separator everywhere in your application you can do something like :
CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("bn-BD"); // or get the current culture ci.DateTimeFormat.DateSeparator = "/"; Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci