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Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:36 PM

DateTime.Parse() and DateTime.TryParse() fail in some cases

DateTime.Parse and DateTime.TryParse fail in .Net 2.0 if the user locale date override has a space in it. Ie: if its something like "M d yyyy". .Net is getting tripped up over the space (we're working on a fix for SP1/Orcas). A workaround is to pass the
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Monday, March 19, 2007 11:45 AM

DateTime.Parse() fails when separator is " " (space) in .Net v2.0 RTM

In Whidbey (Microsoft.Net v2.0), DateTime.Parse() throws an exception if the date separator is a space. This was fixed in future QFEs, including the Whidbey Vista release, so you'll only see this on XP, 2003, etc and not on Vista. This is fixed in future
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:08 PM

How do I get localization in JScript (JavaScript) in IE7?

I ran into an interesting problem with a Vista sidebar calendar gadget. It seems that it is not exactly trivial to find out interesting NLS data like localized month names, first day of week, etc. from JScript. Eventually I found a workaround for some
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:48 PM

ISO 8601 Week of Year format in Microsoft .Net

Several people have noticed that Calendar.GetWeekOfYear() is almost like the ISO 8601 week when passed CalendarWeekRule.FirstFourDayWeek and DayOfWeek.Monday , however it is a little bit different. Specifically ISO 8601 always has 7 day weeks. If the
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Friday, January 20, 2006 1:32 PM

Custom Time Zones in Windows

Someone asked about adding the "Olson" database of timezones to Windows, and I learned about tzedit.exe and the registry keys. Tzedit.exe is a simple tool that allows you to add or edit the time zone registry entries, which live in the registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
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