Re: How do I change the default format string of a Locale?

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From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 08:51

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On Thu, 24 May 2001 13:52:41 -0600, Daniel Spiess wrote:

> I need to change the date/time pattern for a locale.
> 
> I know you can use the SimpleDateFormat object to specify a
> pattern, but I would like to change the pattern for a locale
> so that the locale uses the pattern I specify, not the default.
> 
> In particular the en_US locale specifies the date format to be
> M/d/yy.  I would like the US locale format to be MM/dd/yyyy.

I don't know of any way that you can do this.  The format string comes 
from a ListResourceBundle in the core Java classes, and an instance of 
it is created by a static method, also in the core classes.  Since it 
is not possible to replace these classes, I suspect there is now way.

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John McGrath [TeamB]

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