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Asked: 2026-06-01T06:47:46+00:00

I’m trying to do a simple date format, it does work great, it’s very

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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?

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  1. Editorial Team

    “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.

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