LocalDate pattern that shows day as weekday

Question

I search for a pattern which looks like this: Thu, 11. 05. 1999 So I tried this syntax:

String pattern = "DDD, dd. mm. uuuu";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(pattern);

But it won't work. When trying to format a LocalDate I get java.time.temporal.UnsupportedTemporalTypeException: Unsupported field: MinuteOfHour.

Answer 1

A look into the official documentation of Java explaining the format pattern syntax is always good:

• E = day-of-week
• M = month
• m = minute

So you should try this pattern:

EEE, dd. MM. uuuu

And setting the locale explicitly to English is also a good idea.