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Ulises Layera
Ulises Layera

Reputation: 884

Couldn't translate Date to spanish with Locale("es_ES")

I'm trying to do a simple date format, it does work great, it's very easy, but the problem is the language. I used the locale "es_ES" to get "Miércoles" instead of "Wednesday" and sorts like that but i failed.

Here's my code:

SimpleDateFormat formato = 
    new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE d 'de' MMMM 'de' yyyy", new Locale("es_ES"));
String fecha = formato.format(new Date());

The EXPECTED value of the fecha string is:

Miércoles 4 de Abril de 2012

but i'm still getting:

Wednesday 4 de April de 2012

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 47

Views: 87588

Answers (5)

imTachu
imTachu

Reputation: 3809

Java 8+

Let java.time.DayOfWeek automatically localize.

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
DayOfWeek dow = today.getDayOfWeek() ; 
String day = dow.getDisplayName(TextStyle.FULL, new Locale("es","ES")));  // Or `Locale.of( "es" , "ES" )` in modern Java.

Also works for java.time.Month.

Upvotes: 4

abhinavsinghvirsen
abhinavsinghvirsen

Reputation: 2014

Locale spanishLocale=new Locale("es", "ES");
    String dateInSpanish=localDate.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEEE, dd MMMM, yyyy",spanishLocale));
    System.out.println("'2016-01-01' in Spanish: "+dateInSpanish);

Upvotes: 3

Affe
Affe

Reputation: 47954

"es_ES" is a language + country. You must specify each part separately.

The constructors for Locale are:

You want new Locale("es", "ES"); to get the Locale that goes with es_ES.

However, it would be better to use Locale.forLanguageTag("es-ES"), using the well-formed IETF BCP 47 language tag es-ES (with - instead of _), since that method can return a cached Locale, instead of always creating a new one.

Upvotes: 97

Basil Bourque
Basil Bourque

Reputation: 338181

tl;dr

String output = 
    ZonedDateTime.now ( ZoneId.of ( "Europe/Madrid" ) )
    .format ( 
        DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate ( FormatStyle.FULL )
                         .withLocale ( new Locale ( "es" , "ES" ) ) 
    )
;

martes 12 de julio de 2016

Details

The accepted Answer by Affe is correct. You were incorrectly constructing a Locale object.

java.time

The Question and Answer both use old outmoded classes now supplanted by the java.time framework built into Java 8 and later. These classes supplant the old troublesome date-time classes such as java.util.Date. See Oracle Tutorial. Much of the java.time functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & 7 in ThreeTen-Backport and further adapted to Android in ThreeTenABP.

These classes include the DateTimeFormatter to control the format of text when generating a String from your date-time value. You can specify an explicit formatting pattern. But why bother? Let the class automatically localize the format to the human language and cultural norms of a specific Locale.

For example, get the current moment in Madrid regional time zone.

ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of( "Europe/Madrid" );
ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.now( zoneId );
// example: 2016-07-12T01:43:09.231+02:00[Europe/Madrid]

Instantiate a formatter to generate a String to represent that date-time value. Specify the length of the text via FormatStyle (full, long, medium, short).

DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate ( FormatStyle.FULL );

Apply a Locale to substitute for the JVM’s current default Locale assigned to the formatter.

Locale locale = new Locale ( "es" , "ES" );
formatter = formatter.withLocale ( locale );

Use the formatter to generate a String object.

String output = zdt.format ( formatter );
// example: martes 12 de julio de 2016

Dump to console.

System.out.println ( "zdt: " + zdt + " with locale: " + locale + " | output: " + output );

zdt: 2016-07-12T01:43:09.231+02:00[Europe/Madrid] with locale: es_ES | output: martes 12 de julio de 2016

Upvotes: 7

Cristian Guaman
Cristian Guaman

Reputation: 1035

    Locale esLocale = new Locale("es", "ES");//para trabajar en español
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(strFormatoEntrada, esLocale);//El formato con que llega mi strFecha más el lenguaje

Upvotes: 2

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