Re: to get local Date...

Bumsys@gmail.com wrote:


That would be American format, we English prefer our dates in sequential order
rather than inside-out order.


Use DateFormat and Local.

For example:

package tests;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class FormatDate {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Locale american = new Locale("en", "US" );
    Locale german = new Locale("de", "DE");
        
    DateFormat americanFormat =
      DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, american);
    DateFormat germanFormat =
      DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, german);
        
    Date date = new Date();
        
    System.out.println(americanFormat.format(date));
    System.out.println(germanFormat.format(date));
  }
}

will produce the following output:
3/18/08
18.03.08

As for getting the time, I'll leave that as an exercise for the student...

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