How do I code "day of the week" in Japanese in Visual Studios?

Question

I am making a clock in a Windows Forms App. Now "ddd" displays "Mon", for example. But I want it to say "月".　Currently Form1 has:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Aesthetic_Date_Clock
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void tmrTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            label1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("HH : mm : ss");
            label2.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("yy / MM / dd");
            label3.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("ddd");
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Hi Danleif-7903,
You can use DateTime.DayOfWeek property to get the day of the week represented by this instance.
Please refer to the following code:

var culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("ja-JP");  
var day = culture.DateTimeFormat.GetDayName(DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek);  
label3.Text = day;  

Best Regards,
Daniel Zhang

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Answer 2

Try this fragment:

CultureInfo c = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo( "ja-JP" );
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture = c;

DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

label1.Text = now.ToLongTimeString( );
label2.Text = now.ToShortDateString( );
label3.Text = now.ToString( "ddd" );