Localizing the GridView date values

This is weird. I should have bumped into this problem ages ago. The problem is, whenever I'm trying to enter a localized date into a datagrid, it is saved as if it were an American date. I.e., 1.02.2008, which is the 1st of February, is saved as 01/02/08 (January 2nd).

Setting the page's Culture to Russian didn't work. A quick Reflectoring showed that ObjectDataSource uses InvariantCulture for parsing the supplied values.

The solution is sort of ugly: use the grid's Updating event and swap the string with the corresponding date:

    Protected Sub gridDjSchedules_RowUpdating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewUpdateEventArgs)

        e.NewValues("TheDate") = Convert.ToDateTime(e.NewValues("TheDate"), System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)

    End Sub

Looks like it's time to create a custom control..