DateTimeFormatInfo.MonthDayPattern Property

The MonthDayPattern property defines the culture-specific format of date strings that are returned by calls to the DateTime.ToString and DateTimeOffset.ToString methods and by composite format strings that are supplied the "m" and "M" standard format strings.

This property is affected if the value of the Calendar property changes.

We recommend that you set the date separator in the month and day pattern to an exact string instead of using the date separator placeholder. For example, to obtain the pattern MM-DD, set the month and day pattern to "MM-DD".

The following example displays the value of MonthDayPattern for a few cultures.

using System;
using System.Globalization;


public class SamplesDTFI  {

   public static void Main()  {

      // Displays the values of the pattern properties.
      Console.WriteLine( " CULTURE    PROPERTY VALUE" );
      PrintPattern( "en-US" );
      PrintPattern( "ja-JP" );
      PrintPattern( "fr-FR" );

   }

   public static void PrintPattern( String myCulture )  {

      DateTimeFormatInfo myDTFI = new CultureInfo( myCulture, false ).DateTimeFormat;
      Console.WriteLine( "  {0}     {1}", myCulture, myDTFI.MonthDayPattern );

   }

}

/*
This code produces the following output.  The question marks take the place of native script characters.

 CULTURE    PROPERTY VALUE
  en-US     MMMM dd
  ja-JP     M'?'d'?'
  fr-FR     d MMMM

*/

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Portable Class Library

.NET for Windows Store apps

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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