DateFormat error in android

Question

I'm using DateFormat.format("EEEE d MMMM", new Date()) ,for arabic it displaying as : الثلاثاء 29 ٥

can anyone tell me how can i get that 29 in the specific locale(which was set) numeral or least how can i ignore the current locale set and display date in English only for all locales.

Answer 1

I finally managed to get the date in required format whatever the locale may be,the code goes as:

SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE dd MMMM",new Locale("en"));
textViewID.setText(sf.format(new Date()).toString());

This will display date as

Wednesday 29 August

dont forget to add

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;