Using the CultureInfo Class
The CultureInfo class provides culture-specific information about the locale of the operating system running your application. To give you an idea of what the CultureInfo class does, you can look at your own computer's regional settings.
In the Control Panel, the Regional and Language Settings applet is the place to view and change how regional information should be displayed on your computer. This includes date, time, currency, currency symbol information, as well as your keyboard layout.
Figure 15.1 demonstrates the Regional and Language Settings dialog box for my computer.
Figure 15.1. Regional settings for English (United States).
Because I installed Windows XP and I live in Florida, the locale for my computer ...
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