Date does not accept Locale in android

Question

I need to specify dates in my application in German. Therefore, when I create a calendar object, I do this:

GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar(Locale.GERMANY);

To display the date obtained from the above, do the following with the class SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE ddmmyy");
Log.i("the parsed string", sdf.format(gc.getTime());

The above should return the day name in German, but it still returns it in English. What am I doing?

thank you in advance.

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user743883 May 16, '11 at 13:16

1 answer

Haphazard · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-16T13:31:02+0000

Try installing Locale in the constructor SimpleDateFormat.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE ddmmyy", Locale.GERMANY);