SimpleDateFormat problem....

[Tom Diamond]

Hello,
I have created a SimpleDateFormat object in a JSP as follows :

<%
Date date = new Date();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE d MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss");
String currentDate = sdf.format(date).toString();
%>

But when I try to print it on the browser, instead of letters for the day and the month I get stange chars. I guess that the problem exists because the default language of my system is Greek so Java thinks that everything should be in Greek. Is there away to fix this?
Tom.

[Nirvana_417]

make use of the SimpleDateFormat() construct which uses the Locale object ..
eg
...
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM'/'dd'/'yyyy 'at' hh:mm:ssa" ,Locale.US);
Date today = new Date();
dateTime = formatter.format(today);
..
Use the Locale that U want for your program .