Formatting a DateTime to a shorthand month in English

I have a bit of code that's format开发者_开发百科ting the shorthand month name, see below, but I need the value to always return in English. This code currently seems to be translated into the appropriate language somehow?

Any ideas? Many thanks!

Response.write(myDateTimeValue.ToString("MMM"));  // Needs to always return Jan for all languages

month.ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

InvariantCulture is explicitly for situations where you always need the result to be the same, and always matches en-US. There is no need to create a new instance of CultureInfo.

You can do this by passing a culture info object to the ToString() method as follows:

 CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
 Response.write(month.ToString("MMM", ci));

month.ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"));

month.ToString("MMM", new CultureInfo("en-US"))

You need to call ToString passing in a IFormatProvider that is for the English culture:

Response.write(month.ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-GB")));