Re: Newbie Date question (but trickier than it looks)

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From: Arthur Ore
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:27

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If you can pass you dates as Strings then you can format the date as below

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd_HH:mm:ss");
String x = sdf.format(new java.util.Date());

Arth

>
> Thanks for that.
>
> Sorry if I am being obtuse, but I really am new to java.
>
> I can see how your code creates a new Locale, caches the default, applies 
> the new one, then restores the default.
>
> What I can't see is how I set klugedDateFormatLocale's dateFormat.  This 
> is the bit I couldn't find in the docs.
>
> I had kind of assumed that I could do something like the following
>
>   tempLocale  = new Locale("ENGLISH","UK");
>   *tempLocale.setDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");*
>   savedLocale = Locale.getDefault();
>         Locale.setLocale(tempLocale);
>         try {
>           // Evil stuff
>         } finally {
>           Locale.setLocale(savedLocale);
>         }
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Hugh

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