How to get the month or day of the week in Portuguese on C#?

Question

In PHP, through the function strftime, I can return the name of the day of the week or month, in the language installed in the operating system.

Example:

echo strftime("%d %B", time());

Upshot:

16 January

I need to write the full date in C# in Portuguese and I would like to know if you can do the same in PHP.

Answer 1

You can do it this way:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine(now.ToString(@"d  MMMM", new CultureInfo("PT-pt")));

Upshot

16 January

Example

First you take the current date

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

Then convert it to string using the method ToString and format it using the first format @"d MMMM" and in the second parameter you set the language using the object CultureInfo.

Answer 2

You can do so, that you are free to control the date format and language.

        CultureInfo pt = new CultureInfo("pt-PT",false);
        string dateFormatString = pt.DateTimeFormat.LongDatePattern;

        string data =  DateTime.Now.ToString(dateFormatString,new CultureInfo("pt-PT"));

In this case

16 de January de 2019