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Date string from GregorianCalendar based on locale

I am creating an Android application. I have a GregorianCalendar variable. I want to get the date from this variable as MM-dd-yyyy if the locale is US or dd-MM-yyyy if the locale is EU and so on. I don't want to hard code each locale string, I want to make it depend on the phone's locale.

The problem is that after looking through tens of similar questions, I still couldn't get this to work. I am guessing it's two or three lines of code, perhaps using SimpleDateFormat or GregorianCalendar.get() or getDisplayName().

Thanks for the help.

Solution

  • try this

        GregorianCalendar gc = ...
    String str = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(gc.getTime());

    BTW default date format (SHORT) for US is dd/MM/yy eg 30/05/13