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DateFormat formatter = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(
DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL, Locale.US);
TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("CST");
formatter.setTimeZone(timeZone);
System.out.println("The local time is " +
formatter.format(calendar.getTime()));
35.3.3 The SimpleDateFormat Class
The date and time formatting subclass, SimpleDateFormat, enables you to choose
any user-defined pattern for date and time formatting. The constructor shown
below can be used to create a SimpleDateFormat object, and the object can be
used to convert a Date object into a string with the desired format.
public SimpleDateFormat(String pattern)
The parameter pattern is a string consisting of characters with special
meanings. For example, y means year, M means month, d means day of the month,
G is for era designator, h means hour, m means minute of the hour, s means
second of the minute, and z means time zone. Therefore, the following code
will display a string like "Current time is 1997.11.12 AD at 04:10:18 PST"
because the pattern is "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z".
SimpleDateFormat formatter
= new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' hh:mm:ss z");
date currentTime = new Date();
String dateString = formatter.format(currentTime);
System.out.println("Current time is " + dateString);
35.3.4 The DateFormatSymbols Class
The DateFormatSymbols class encapsulates localizable date-time formatting
data, such as the names of the months and the names of the days of the week,
as shown in Figure 35.3.
java.text.DateFormatSymbols
+DateFormatSymbols()
Constructs a DateFormatSymbols object for the default locale.
+DateFormatSymbols(Locale locale) Constructs a DateFormatSymbols object by for the given locale.
+getAmPmStrings(): String[]
Gets AM/PM strings. For example: "AM" and "PM".
+getEras(): String[]
Gets era strings. For example: "AD" and "BC".
+getMonths(): String[]
Gets month strings. For example: "January", "February", etc.
+setMonths(newMonths: String[]): void Sets month strings for this locale.
+getShortMonths(): String[]
Gets short month strings. For example: "Jan", "Feb", etc.
+setShortMonths(newShortMonths: String[]): Sets short month strings for this locale.
void
+getWeekdays(): String[]
Gets weekday strings. For example: "Sunday", "Monday", etc.
+setWeekdays(newWeekdays: String[]): void Sets weekday strings.
+getShotWeekdays(): String[]
Gets short weekday strings. For example: "Sun", "Mon", etc.
+setShortWeekdays(newWeekdays: String[]): Sets short weekday strings. For example: "Sun", "Mon", etc.
void
Figure 35.3
The DateFormatSymbols class encapsulates localizable date-time formatting
data.
For example, the following statement displays the month names and weekday
names for the default locale.
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