Question

i have to give dates in my application in German language.
So when i make a calendar object i do this:

GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar(Locale.GERMANY);

To display the date obtained from the above i do the following using the SimpleDateFormat class:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE ddmmyy");
Log.i("the parsed string", sdf.format(gc.getTime());

The above should return the name of the day in German, but it is still returning it in English. what do i do?

thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Try setting the Locale in the SimpleDateFormat constructor.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE ddmmyy", Locale.GERMANY);