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Setting the yyyyMMdd date format by defining the culture name

I want to set the date format of user yyyyMMdd using culture name. What culture name must be specified to accomplish this?

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Why don't you use a format specifier?

string s = DateTime.Today.ToString("yyyyMMdd");


I am not aware of any pre-rolled crops that use this specifier. Can you possibly flip your own culture?

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You can create your own culture using the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder class (in the sysglobl assembly). But that might be overkill for your need ...

Another, simpler solution: create a new CultureInfo instance based on the current culture and assign it to a custom DateTimeFormatInfo:



DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
dtfi.ShortDateTimePattern = "yyyyMMdd";
CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);
ci.DateTimeFormat = dtfi;
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This link can help you understand DateTime formatting and formatting, and override culture specific formatting. This basically demonstrates this by reverse engineering the msdn code examples :

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