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Daniel Jensen 29 posts 160 karma points

Feb 05, 2016 @ 08:05
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Changing language for month names
Hi, I want to print out the month names in a different language, than the default english. Im printing it out like this:
```
@Umbraco.Content(item.Id).CreateDate.ToString("d. MMMM yyyy")
```
But it will display it like this:
1. January 2016
I have tried doing this in my web.config file:
```
    <system.web>
       <globalization
         fileEncoding="utf-8"
         requestEncoding="utf-8"
         responseEncoding="utf-8"
         culture="da-DK"
         uiCulture="da-DK"
       />
    </system.web>
```
But it does not change the output. Then i have tried doing this:

This works, so it reverts back to danish, but it seems like an odd way to change it. (what if it was a multilingual site?)

Isn't there/shouldn't there be a way of telling Umbraco which to use as default? Or let it fall back on browser/web server defaults?

Best regards Daniel
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Daniel 60 posts 174 karma points

Feb 05, 2016 @ 08:50

It might be as simple as this, haven't tried:

@{
    var umbracoDate = Umbraco.Content(item.Id).CreateDate;
    var formattedDate = umbracoDate.ToString("d. MMMM yyyy", new CultureInfo("da-DK"));
    //you could always get the CultureInfo off CurrentCulture, but this is a nice test
}
@formattedDate

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Kasper Holm 47 posts 180 karma points

Feb 05, 2016 @ 09:01

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Hey Daniel

Have you set a hostname and culture for your website ? :)

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Daniel Jensen 29 posts 160 karma points

Feb 05, 2016 @ 09:27

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I was only checking up on this problem when i was running it on localhost (en-US OS), but I didn't think of checking our staging webserver, to see if it was present there. (which is set up correctly with hostname and culture)

So it was indeed not a problem, when its hosted on a proper server, thanks Kasper Holm.

new CultureInfo("da-DK")

and

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture

Did indeed also do the trick :) Thanks Daniel

Awesome cummunity again to the rescue :)

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Kasper Holm 47 posts 180 karma points

Feb 05, 2016 @ 10:01

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No problem had that issue loads of times ;)

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