HELP: Calendar, DateFormat class

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From: zav
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:00

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Hi All,

I have instantiated a GregorianCalendar for a specific Locale and also
got a DateTimeInstance for DateFormat class.  Unfortunately it seems
impossible to get hold of the DAY of the week as a Locale sensitive
string such as Monday, Lundi, Montag etc...

The GregorianCalendar is created as new GregorianCalendar(Locale.UK or
US or FRENCH);
The DateFormat is created based on the FULL format to get as much detail
as possible...

The DateFormat class returns a Locale sensitive string of the current
date using the format() method which has two signatures.

One is format(Date dateobj);

The other is format(Date dateobj, StringBuffer stringobj, FieldPosition
fieldposition)

The latter method always outputs the full date String rather than just
the fieldPosition you're interested such as Monday, Lundi etc...

Can anyone explain how you can get this sort of information out of these
classes???  Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

regards,

Zav


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