Collect day and month names of a culture in C#

The CultureInfo class helps you get the names of days and months in various languages that belong to the selected culture.

Here come 2 simple functions to collect the day and month names in string lists:

public List<string> GetWeekDaysByCulture(CultureInfo culture)
{
	return new List<string>
	{
									
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Monday), 
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Tuesday), 
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Wednesday), 
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Thursday), 
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Friday), 
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Saturday), 
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DayOfWeek.Sunday)
	};
}

public List<string> GetMonthNamesByCulture(CultureInfo culture)
{
	return new List<string>
	{
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(1),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(2),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(3),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(4),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(5),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(6),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(7),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(8),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(9),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(10),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(11),
		culture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(12),
	};
}

You can call these functions as follows to get the French day and month names:

List<string> days = GetWeekDaysByCulture(new CultureInfo("fr-FR"));
List<string> months = GetMonthNamesByCulture(new CultureInfo("fr-FR"));

days.ForEach(d => Debug.WriteLine(d));
Debug.WriteLine("=====================");
months.ForEach(m => Debug.WriteLine(m));

Here’s the output:

lundi
mardi
mercredi
jeudi
vendredi
samedi
dimanche
=====================
janvier
février
mars
avril
mai
juin
juillet
août
septembre
octobre
novembre
décembre

Now you know the day and month names in French.

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