Howto format a date as localized Short MonthDay string
- by Wouter
I would like to format a DateTime to a string containing the month name abbreviated and the date for use in axislabels in a graph.
The default DateTime format strings do not contain abbreviated month. I guess there is no standard but I could take a substring of the first 3 characters of the month name and replace this into the MonthDay format. The reason I would use MonthDay is that the ordering of month and date is locale dependent.
Does anyone have a better idea?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx#MonthDay
