DateTimeFormatInfo Class

2013-01-16

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Provides culture-specific information about the format of date and time values.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System. . :: . .Object
System.Globalization..::..DateTimeFormatInfo

Namespace: System.Globalization
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class DateTimeFormatInfo

public sealed class DateTimeFormatInfo

public ref class DateTimeFormatInfo sealed

[<Sealed>]
type DateTimeFormatInfo =  class end

public final class DateTimeFormatInfo

The DateTimeFormatInfo type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	AbbreviatedDayNames	Gets or sets a one-dimensional array of type String containing the culture-specific abbreviated names of the days of the week.
	AbbreviatedMonthNames	Gets or sets a one-dimensional string array that contains the culture-specific abbreviated names of the months.
	AMDesignator	Gets or sets the string designator for hours that are "ante meridiem" (before noon).
	CurrentInfo	Gets a read-only DateTimeFormatInfo object that formats values based on the current culture.
	DateSeparator	Gets or sets the string that separates the components of a date, that is, the year, month, and day.
	DayNames	Gets or sets a one-dimensional string array that contains the culture-specific full names of the days of the week.
	FullDateTimePattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a long date and long time value.
	LongDatePattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a long date value.
	LongTimePattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a long time value.
	MonthDayPattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a month and day value.
	MonthNames	Gets or sets a one-dimensional array of type String containing the culture-specific full names of the months.
	PMDesignator	Gets or sets the string designator for hours that are "post meridiem" (after noon).
	RFC1123Pattern	Gets the custom format string for a time value that is based on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) 1123 specification.
	ShortDatePattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a short date value.
	ShortTimePattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a short time value.
	SortableDateTimePattern	Gets the custom format string for a sortable date and time value.
	TimeSeparator	Gets or sets the string that separates the components of time, that is, the hour, minutes, and seconds.
	UniversalSortableDateTimePattern	Gets the custom format string for a universal, sortable date and time string.
	YearMonthPattern	Gets or sets the custom format string for a year and month value.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

The properties of the DateTimeFormatInfo class contain culture-specific information for formatting or parsing date and time values such as the following:

The patterns used to format date values.
The patterns used to format time values.
The names of the days of the week.
The names of the months of the year.
The A.M. and P.M. designators used in time values.
The calendar in which dates are expressed.

This behavior is particularly important in the case of serialization. The .NET Framework persists all overridable settings, instead of persisting only the settings that are accessed at the time of serialization.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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