Newbie Date question (but trickier than it looks)

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From: Hugh Jones
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:43

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Hi all.

I have a java class which only works when I set the date format in the 
control panel to a specific value.

I am not actually manipulating dates myself, but preparing the ground 
for a 3rd party API call.  This call fails unless the locale settings 
are just right.

So what I need to do is set the system level date format *At runtime*.

As a Delphi programmer I am used to having access to 'ShortDateFormat' 
and 'LongDateFormat' variables to solve the problem.  Can this be done 
in Java ?

Cheers
Hugh.

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