Using different culture to format Date
Imports System.Globalization
Module Example
Public Sub Main()
Dim cultures() As CultureInfo = {CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, _
New CultureInfo("en-us"), _
New CultureInfo("fr-fr"), _
New CultureInfo("de-DE"), _
New CultureInfo("es-ES"), _
New CultureInfo("ja-JP")}
Dim thisDate As Date =#5/1/2009 9:00AM#
For Each culture As CultureInfo In cultures
Dim cultureName As String
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(culture.Name) Then
cultureName = culture.NativeName
Else
cultureName = culture.Name
End If
Console.WriteLine("In {0}, {1}",cultureName, thisDate.ToString(culture))
Next
End Sub
End Module
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