Read the Date Format String specified in control panel

[Prashant Gupta]

I want to read the date format string (i.e. yyyy.MM.dd) specified via Windows ( Control Panel->Regional options)from the java code.

Can someone tell me how to read that.?

[Paul Sturrock]

Look at the java.util.Locale class and how you can use it with java.text.DateFormat.

[Prashant Gupta]

Tried that..but Locale class does not expose any method to get the Date Format String..it has getCountry(),getDisplayCountry(),getDisplayVariant()..but nothing specific or close to System level date settings.

[Santosh Maskar]

Try this one

public String calToStr(Calendar cal) throws Exception
{
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");
//You can use Date format as per your requrirment : yyyy-MM-dd

String dateString = formatter.format(cal.getTime());
return dateString;
}

Thanks,
Santosh

[ September 16, 2005: Message edited by: Santosh Maskar ]
[ September 16, 2005: Message edited by: Santosh Maskar ]

[Prashant Gupta]

yea...but as per my requirements I need to get the format String from the System.I don't want to specify any format String in the code or in property file.

I want to read the the Dtae Format String from the Control settings ->reginol settings.

[Ulf Dittmer]

In that case, use the DateFormat.getDateInstance(int) method. Using different parameters, you can get the date as defined on your system in short, medium or long format.

[Prashant Gupta]

Thanks guys...but I think there is a bug with jdk1.4 that is why I am not getting expected output..

chcek out this link:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4514389