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Today’s post is a simple reminder that Localization is a dirty job!

DateTime.Parse() will break your software on localized system

So, after some time working on the migration project, we finally released a stable Release Candidate. While the Test Team is still running their Critical Regression testing (that’s the final test before release) on the release candidate, I was transferred back to the Localization project.

My current task is to make a certain web application work with the localized version of our product which is running on a localized version of Windows.

So far, there are 8 tracks filled against this certain web application. A quick look at the tracks revealed a common problem:

“String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.”

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