🚀 go-pugleaf

Gillmer J. Derge [TeamB] wrote:

>  Try something like this:
> 
>   Locale klugedDateFormatLocale = new Locale("x", "y", "z");
>   Locale originalDefaultLocale = Locale.getDefault();
>   Locale.setLocale(klugedDateFormatLocale);
>   try {
>     // evil 3rd party API call
>   } finally {
>     Locale.setLocale(originalDefaultLocale);
>   }
> 

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