Formatting Data - Beginning Java 8 Fundamentals - page 478

Table 13-1. Predefined Date Format Styles and Formatted Text for Locale as United States

Style Formatted Date

DEFAULT Mar 27, 2003

SHORT 3/27/03

MEDIUM Mar 27, 2003

LONG March 27, 2003

FULL Thursday, March 27, 2003

The program listed in Listing 13-1 displays dates in short and medium formats for locales as default (which is US
for the JVM running this example), France, and Germany. The program prints the current date. It will print different
formats of the same date when you run this program. Your results will be different than those displayed since it
displays different formats for today's date.

Listing 13-1. Using the Predefined Date Formats

// PredefinedDateFormats.java
package com.jdojo.format;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class PredefinedDateFormats {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Get the current date
Date today = new Date();

// Print date in the default locale format
Locale defaultLocale = Locale.getDefault();
printLocaleDetails(defaultLocale);
printDate(defaultLocale, today);
// Print date in French format
printLocaleDetails(Locale.FRANCE);
printDate(Locale.FRANCE, today);

// Print date in German format. We could also use Locale.GERMANY
// instead of new Locale ("de", "DE").
Locale germanLocale = new Locale ("de", "DE");
printLocaleDetails(germanLocale);
printDate(germanLocale, today);
}
public static void printLocaleDetails (Locale locale){
String languageCode = locale.getLanguage();
String languageName = locale.getDisplayLanguage();
String countryCode = locale.getCountry();
String countryName = locale.getDisplayCountry();