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Hello,

I'm trying to use the environment macro $(Environment.Date) but it keeps inserting the date in US format. My system has been set to English (Australian).

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance,

 Alex.

Hello,

The macro $(Environment.Date) generates code DateTime.Now.ToString("d").

So, it should output date in format that set up in Control Panel -> Regional And Language Options -> Date -> Short Date Format.

Hi and thanks for your reply. There must be more going on here because I've done another test and this definitely isn't working. See the following screenshot:

I missed including in the screenshot that GhostDoc creates a date of 12/14/2009 here. As mentioned before, everything is set to English (Australian).

It is really weird... I tested that on clean machine and everything worked well.

I can only guess that you have another add-in or package that executed the following line of code:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US")

And then, all assemblies in Visual Studio run their code in another locale. 

Try to turn off another add-ins and try again.

I had ReSharper 5.0 nightly build installed. When I uninstalled it, GhostDoc worked correctly. When I reinstalled the latest ReSharper build, it started using the wrong date format again.

I'll raise this as a bug with the ReSharper team. Thank you for your help with identifying the problem!!

Alex.