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Shamim Ahmmed
Shamim Ahmmed

Reputation: 8383

Inconsistent date time format for German locale

The following code produces different output in Android and standard jdk

    final DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z",
    Locale.GERMAN);
    final String today = df.format(new Date());

Output:

Android: Mi., 24 Jul 2013 12:33:12 +0200

Standard jdk: Mi, 24 Jul 2013 12:33:12 +0200

In the server side, It is throwing parse exception, any idea?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1882

Answers (2)

user2643395
user2643395

Reputation:

Use standard UTC date time format. Not all locales are supported by JDK. So it is safe to use Locale.US specially useful when exchanging data over platform.

Upvotes: 2

Evgeniy Dorofeev
Evgeniy Dorofeev

Reputation: 136042

I can suggest a workaround:

    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z",
            Locale.GERMAN);
    DateFormatSymbols dfs = df.getDateFormatSymbols();
    String[] swd = {"", "So", "Mo", "Di", "Mi", "Do", "Fr", "Sa"};
    dfs.setShortWeekdays(swd);
    df.setDateFormatSymbols(dfs);

now it will format dates into 

Mi, 24 Jul 2013 12:33:12 +0200

in both standard Java and Android

Upvotes: 3

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