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JDJ
JDJ

Reputation: 4328

Android TimePickerDialog not displaying 24-hour format for certain locales?

I'm working on internationalizing my app, and I've been setting my device to different locales and testing out the TimePickerDialog to make sure that it displays the time pickers in the correct format for that locale.

It displays the correct time pickers for U.S. (AM/PM) format.

For Germany, I expected it to display the time picker in 24-hour format, but instead it displays it in 12-hour format with vorm./nachm. options.

But the one I am really confused about is when I set my device locale to French, the time picker displays time in a 12-hour format with AM/PM, just like for the U.S. I would have also expected this to display the pickers in 24-hour format.

Is this the expected behavior for a TimePickerDialog?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1159

Answers (1)

JDJ
JDJ

Reputation: 4328

Okay I just found the solution.

The final argument to the constructor for TimePickerDialog lets you specify a boolean called is24HourView.

So you can check this dynamically using:

TimePickerDialog tpd = new TimePickerDialog(
            getActivity(),
            this, 
            hour, 
            minute, 
            DateFormat.is24HourFormat(getActivity()));

Upvotes: 4

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