Odd military time issue

[Tyler]

My customers are use to always using military time. The RadDateTimePicker handles PM values like 1405 (2:05 PM), however, if a user enters something like 5/10/2011 0105, it will convert it to 10:05 am instead of 1:05 am. Is there a way to fix this?

I found a temporary solution, but it is not very clean. I added the ParseDateTimeValue event to my controls...

private void RadDateTimePicker_ParseDateTimeValue(object sender, Telerik.Windows.Controls.ParseDateTimeEventArgs args)
        {
            if(args.IsParsingSuccessful)
            {
                string textToParce = args.TextToParse.Trim();
                DateTime parced;
                while (textToParce.Contains(" 0"))
                {
                    textToParce = textToParce.Replace(" 0", " ");
                }
                for (int i = 1; i < 10;i++ )
                {
                    if (textToParce.Contains(" " + i))
                    {
                        textToParce = textToParce.Replace(" " + i, " " + i + ":");
                        i = 10;
                    }
                }
                if(DateTime.TryParse(textToParce,out parced))
                {
                    args.Result = parced;
                }
            }
        }

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi Tyler,

 Currently this is the only way to customize the parsing of date/time in the RadDateTimePicker control - using the ParseDateTimeValue event of the RadDateTimePicker control.

Kind regards,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team

[Steve]

Change the applications culture to use military time so that all date/time use from here on (grids, datetimepicker, etc) will be in military time.

// Change the default date/time format so that all subsequent displays of date/time will use these formats.
CultureInfo cultureInfo = new CultureInfo("en-US")
   {
      DateTimeFormat = new DateTimeFormatInfo
         {
            ShortDatePattern = "dd-MMM-yyyy",
            ShortTimePattern = "HHmm",
            LongTimePattern = "HHmm"
         }
   };

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultureInfo;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = cultureInfo;

[Miroslav Nedyalkov]

Hi Steve,

Thank you very much for your suggestion! It works find and sounds like the preferred way to allow input of military time format. Your Telerik points were updated for your cooperation.

All the best,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team