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CurrentCulture incorrectly defaulting to en-US in ASP.net

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I have just migrated around 100 ASP.net sites from IIS 6 on Windows Sever 2003 to IIS 7 on Windows 2008. I’ve just noticed that various pieces of code that use things like DateTime.Parse have started kicking up errors “String was not recognized as a valid DateTime”. I’ve tracked this down to the fact that the CurrentCulture of the sites is defaulting to ‘en-US’ and so my UK users are inputting dates in an unexpected format.

Setting culture for session

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Each user of my application will choose their country, after which it will be stored in a cookie and stored for later requests. Everything is working OK, but I need to set the culture at the start of a session. I’m currently experimenting by setting the culture in the web.config to be en-GB and then using the Global.asax to override the culture for the session to en-US. Code below