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Creating SharePoint 2010 Calculated Field from code in sites with different regional settings

Say you need to create the following calculated column in different sites that have different regional settings: English, French, etc. to format the DateTime [Start Time] filed to  "dd-mm-yyyy". The following formula would look list this in English - with a comma separator: = TEXT ([ Start Time ] , "dd-mm-yyyy" ) Like this in french - with a semicolon separator: = TEXT ([ Start Time ] ; "dd-mm-yyyy" ) When creating the column from from code  behind to treat this  the SP Web . Locale . TextInfo . ListSeparator  property must be used to get the correct list separator: SPList spList = SPContext . Current . Web . Lists [ "List Title" ]; string newFieldName = spList . Add ( "CalculatedField" , SPFieldType . Calculated , false ); SPFieldCalculated newField = ( SPFieldCalculated ) spList . GetField ( newFieldName ); newField . Formula = String . Format (@ "=TEXT([Start Time]{0} ""dd-mm-yyyy"")