title: DateTime.Parse not reversing month and day based on thread culture
body: <p>I'm parsing a date string from a database so that I can display it in the current culture of the UI thread. For some reason, the date is not parsing with respect to the culture - specifically, I'm parsing a en-US date to switch to a es-ES date and the month/day positions are not switching.</p>
  
  <p>According to <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.parse%28v=vs.110%29.aspx#Culture" rel="nofollow">this MSDN article</a> I should just be able to use Parse with only the date string as a parameter. I should also be able to explicitly provide a culture object. Neither works and my date remains as mm/dd instead of dd/mm. I've verified that both the thread's CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture are set properly and if I do a new DateTime, that outputs correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Nothing fancy in the code, just the .NET API.</p>
  
  <pre><code>CultureInfo culture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(cultureName);
  Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
  Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
  DateTime formattedDate = DateTime.Parse("5/9/2014");
  formattedDate.ToShortDateString(); //this returns 5/9/2014
  DateTime.Today.ToShortDateString(); //this returns 9/5/2014
  </code></pre>