C# DateTime GetDateTimeFormats(Char, IFormatProvider)

Description

DateTime GetDateTimeFormats(Char, IFormatProvider) converts the value of this instance to all the string representations supported by the specified standard date and time format specifier and culture-specific formatting information.

Syntax

DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(Char, IFormatProvider) has the following syntax.

public string[] GetDateTimeFormats(
  char format,
  IFormatProvider provider
)

Parameters

DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(Char, IFormatProvider) has the following parameters.

• format - A date and time format string (see Remarks).
• provider - An object that supplies culture-specific formatting information about this instance.

Returns

DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(Char, IFormatProvider) method returns

Example

The following example demonstrates the GetDateTimeFormats(Char, IFormatProvider) method.

It displays the string representations of a date using the short date format specifier ("d") for the fr-FR culture.

using System;/*w w w .  j a  v a 2  s . c o  m*/
public class MainClass{
  public static void Main(String[] argv){  
        DateTime july28 = new DateTime(2009, 7, 28, 5, 23, 15);
    
    IFormatProvider culture = 
      new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR", true);
    // Get the short date formats using the "fr-FR" culture.
    string [] frenchJuly28Formats = 
          july28.GetDateTimeFormats('d', culture);

    // Display july28 in short date formats using "fr-FR" culture.
    foreach (string format in frenchJuly28Formats) {
      System.Console.WriteLine(format);
    }

  }
}
    

The code above generates the following result.