How to change date time language in android

Question

How can we change date/time language in android without changing the device language.

Below is my current code. below code changes according to the device language. but i want to change without changing the device language settings

public static String formatTime(Date time)
    {
        String timeFormat = UserSettingManager.getUserSetting(UserSettingManager.PREF_TIME_FORMAT);
        if(StringUtils.isEmptyOrWhitespace(timeFormat))
        {
            timeFormat = DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT;
        }

    SimpleDateFormat formatter;

    try
    {
        formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(timeFormat);            
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT);
    }
    return formatter.format(time);
}

Answer 1

try this:

public static String formatTime(Date time, Locale locale){
    String timeFormat = UserSettingManager
                           .getUserSetting(UserSettingManager.PREF_TIME_FORMAT);

    if(StringUtils.isEmptyOrWhitespace(timeFormat)){
        timeFormat = DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT;
    }

    SimpleDateFormat formatter;

    try {
        formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(timeFormat, locale);            
    } catch(Exception e) {
        formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT, locale);
    }
    return formatter.format(time);
}

And then like

Log.e("CHINESE DATE", formatTime(new Date(), Locale.CHINESE));

EDIT

If you don't find a locale in the default list you can instantiate one using its constructor :

Locale spanish = new Locale("es", "ES");

So it becomes

Log.e("SPANISH DATE", formatTime(new Date(), new Locale("es", "ES"));