IIS seems to have forgotten what the British/en-GB date format is!

Hi,

Dates in my web applications (both classic ASP and ASP.NET) refuse to display in British format.

All regional settings on my PC are set to British, as is the LCID (= 2057), and all Windows apps display the date correctly.

After searching for any other settings, I came across the IIS Metabase key LM/W3SVC/AspLCID which had a value of 2048, so I changed it to 2057, and this seems to have fixed classic ASP, but has not had an effect on ASP.NET.

Interestingly enough, if I set ASP.NET pages to a different culture then it correctly uses the date format for that particular country. It's only when I use en-GB that it ignores the setting and displays the date in American format.

It's as if IIS has forgotten what the British standard is!

As a temporary fix, I'm using en-IE, but I really need to find out why IIS is not reading the system default format, nor implementing the British format when I explicitly set it.

I'd appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Adnan

Are these dates coming from a database query? If so maybe the dbms is set to a different regional setting.

Just guessing, I really don't have any idea and it sounds like you've already looked in the obvious places.

The dates were coming from a database when I first noticed that they were formatted incorrectly, but since then I've created test pages using just DateTime.Now etc and that's also displayed incorrectly.