C# DateTime GetDateTimeFormats (IFormatProvider)

Description

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

Syntax

DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(IFormatProvider) has the following syntax.

public string[] GetDateTimeFormats(
  IFormatProvider provider
)

Parameters

DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(IFormatProvider) has the following parameters.

• provider - An object that supplies culture-specific formatting information about this instance.

Returns

DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(IFormatProvider) method returns

Example

The following example demonstrates the DateTime.GetDateTimeFormats(IFormatProvider) method. It displays the string representation of a date using all possible standard date and time formats for the fr-FR culture.

using System;//from w  ww .jav a2s . c om
public class MainClass{
  public static void Main(String[] argv){  
        DateTime july28 = new DateTime(2009, 7, 28, 5, 23, 15, 16);
    
    IFormatProvider culture = 
      new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR", true);
    // Get the short date formats using the "fr-FR" culture.
    string [] frenchJuly28Formats = 
          july28.GetDateTimeFormats(culture);

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

  }
}
    

The code above generates the following result.