Format date without year

Question

How can create text representation of some date, that takes locale into account and contains only day and month (no year)?

Following code gives me something like 23/09/2010

DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, Locale.getDefault()).format(date); 

I want to get 23/09

Answer 1

This will work for Android, in case someone needs it:

int flags = DateUtils.FORMAT_SHOW_DATE | DateUtils.FORMAT_NO_YEAR; String monthAndDayText = DateUtils.formatDateTime(context, date, flags); 

Answer 2

You could use regex to trim off all y's and any non-alphabetic characters before and after, if any. Here's a kickoff example:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {     for (Locale locale : Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {         DateFormat df = getShortDateInstanceWithoutYears(locale);         System.out.println(locale + ": " + df.format(new Date()));           } }  public static DateFormat getShortDateInstanceWithoutYears(Locale locale) {     SimpleDateFormat sdf = (SimpleDateFormat) DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale);     sdf.applyPattern(sdf.toPattern().replaceAll("[^\\p{Alpha}]*y+[^\\p{Alpha}]*", ""));     return sdf; } 

You see that this snippet tests it for all locales as well. It looks to work fine for all locales here.