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Determine the date format by locale with clj-time

I have been searching for this for quite a while now through Google and I couldn't find an ultimate solution with clj-time. I want to format a date automatically by the locale, like in this example or here. How would I do this using clj-time?

Thanks & Cheers

Solution

  • Use with-locale (http://clj-time.github.io/clj-time/doc/clj-time.format.html#var-with-locale)

    (require '[clj-time.core :as time] '[clj-time.format :as fmt])
(import '[java.util Locale])

(def custom-formatter (fmt/formatters :rfc822))
(def ja-formatter (fmt/with-locale custom-formatter (Locale. "ja")))
(fmt/unparse ja-formatter (time/date-time 2010 10 3))
> "日, 03 10 2010 00:00:00 +0000"

    -UPDATE-

    Example of usage of joda-time DateTimeFormat:

    (require '[clj-time.core :as time] '[clj-time.format :as fmt])
(import '[java.util Locale])
(import '[org.joda.time.format DateTimeFormat])
(def custom-formatter (DateTimeFormat/longDate))
(def ja-formatter (fmt/with-locale custom-formatter (Locale. "ja")))
(fmt/unparse ja-formatter (time/date-time 2010 10 3))
"2010/10/03"
(def us-formatter (fmt/with-locale custom-formatter (Locale. "us")))
(fmt/unparse us-formatter (time/date-time 2010 10 3))
"October 3, 2010"