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I want to display a hint how a date should be entered. For Germany it might look like
"Enter date in this format: dd.mm.yyy"
For the US
"Enter date in this format: mm/dd/yyyy"
I understand that with
DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(context);
I can convert a date into a format matching the user's locale. But how would I get the day/month/year string for the hint?
And of course I would want the similar thing with a hint for time, too.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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For formatting a time of day according to a user’s locale, get a formatter from DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedTime. For both date and time together use one of the overloaded versions of DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDateTime. I recommend you don’t use DateFormat, SimpleDateFormat and Date.
Also note that if you are not doing anything else locale specific in the rest of your program, you should reset the locale back to default after you are done with formatting the date and time. Otherwise, you might get some unexpected surprises when outputting or parsing numbers.
To display date according to country locale format rules, We have to pass country locale code as a third parameter to angular date pipe as shown below. For example France follows Central European Summer Time and it has an timezone offset ‘+0200’.
Another important date and time localization method that you should understand is that using the locale. Actually, the locale is a framework to switch between multiple languages. Take a look at the below code snippet for a better idea of this: d1= time.strftime("%A, %d.
You can use the getBestDateTimePattern method of DateFormat:
String datePattern = DateFormat.getBestDateTimePattern(Locale.getDefault(), "ddMMyyyy");
String timePattern = DateFormat.getBestDateTimePattern(Locale.getDefault(), "HHmmss");
note: assumes 24-hour format for the time. You might want to convert to all upper or lower case before presentation to the user.
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