Question

I’m using following code in my app:

Calendar tmpCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
String itemTime = String.format(
        Locale.getDefault(),
        "%1$tA, %1$te. %1$tB %1$tY",
        tmpCalendar);

German is the default language on my device, so I’d expect to get something like:

Dienstag, 7. Juni 2011

Instead I’m getting:

3, 7. 6 2011

If I use Locale.US instead of Locale.getDefault() everything works fine. Am I doing something wrong?

Oddly, it works in an emulator running Android 2.2 in German, but not on a HTC Desire, also running 2.2. Why?

Answer 1

It seems to be a bug of some vendors and is issue #9453 in the Android issue tracker.