Specify culture for application c#

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my computer is set to america datetime culture dd-mm-yyyy but in my application I want to use yy-mm-dd so I want to use swedish culture no matter what the computer culture is set to. using this line dosen't always work Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("sv-SE"); It's a asp.net web application.

Sometimes when debugging my datetime will be dd-mm-yyyy and the next time I debug the same datetime will be yyyy-mm-dd. — Joakim Carlsson
– Joakim Carlsson, Commented Aug 28, 2015 at 10:38
@JoakimCarlsson Are you sure it is after setting a culture for a Thread? — kamil-mrzyglod
– kamil-mrzyglod, Commented Aug 28, 2015 at 10:39
@Kamo it works when not debugging, but when debugging it doesn't. — Joakim Carlsson
– Joakim Carlsson, Commented Aug 28, 2015 at 10:55

Guffa · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-28 10:45:15Z

Setting the culture for the thread only works for code executed after that line. Also a request can be handled by different threads in different stages, so you would need to repeat that line after each point where a thread switch is possible.

To set the culture globally you can specify the culture in the system.web section in web.config:

<globalization culture="sv-SE" uiCulture="sv-SE" />

Thanks, this would have helped be a long time ago. Thanks for the fast reply.

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