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// <Snippet11>
using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Threading;
public class Example
{
public static void Main()
{
DateTime dat = DateTime.MinValue;
// Change the current culture to ja-JP with the Japanese Calendar.
CultureInfo jaJP = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ja-JP");
jaJP.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = new JapaneseCalendar();
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = jaJP;
Console.WriteLine("Earliest supported date by {1} calendar: {0:d}",
jaJP.DateTimeFormat.Calendar.MinSupportedDateTime,
GetCalendarName(jaJP));
// Attempt to display the date.
Console.WriteLine(dat.ToString());
Console.WriteLine();
// Change the current culture to ar-EG with the Um Al Qura calendar.
CultureInfo arEG = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ar-EG");
arEG.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = new UmAlQuraCalendar();
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = arEG;
Console.WriteLine("Earliest supported date by {1} calendar: {0:d}",
arEG.DateTimeFormat.Calendar.MinSupportedDateTime,
GetCalendarName(arEG));
// Attempt to display the date.
Console.WriteLine(dat.ToString());
Console.WriteLine();
// Change the current culture to en-US.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US");
Console.WriteLine(dat.ToString(jaJP));
Console.WriteLine(dat.ToString(arEG));
Console.WriteLine(dat.ToString("d"));
}
private static string GetCalendarName(CultureInfo culture)
{
Calendar cal = culture.DateTimeFormat.Calendar;
return cal.GetType().Name.Replace("System.Globalization.", "").Replace("Calendar", "");
}
}
// The example displays the following output:
// Earliest supported date by Japanese calendar: 明治 1/9/8
// 0001-01-01T00:00:00
//
// Earliest supported date by UmAlQura calendar: 01/01/18
// 0001-01-01T00:00:00
//
// 0001-01-01T00:00:00
// 0001-01-01T00:00:00
// 1/1/0001
// </Snippet11>