Arabic site News Listing to show date in Gregorian - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

Posted by Community Admin on 31-Jul-2016 00:00

News listing plugin on Arabic site is showing publication date in Hijri format. I want it to be in Gregorian. Can anyone help?

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Aug-2016 00:00

Hi Paul. I had the same problem. I just built new extension for ItemViewModel.

public static class ItemViewModelExtension

public static string GetDateTimeGregorianCalendar(this ItemViewModel item, string fieldName, string format)

var date = (DateTime)item.Fields.GetMemberValue(fieldName);

var culture = new CultureInfo(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name);

GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();

culture.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = calendar;

return date.ToString(format, culture);

And in Feather widget template i am using

@item.GetDateTimeGregorianCalendar("PublicationDate", "MMM d, yyyy, HH:mm tt")

instead

@item.GetDateTime("PublicationDate", "MMM d, yyyy, HH:mm tt")

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