I have use case in java where we want get the locale specific date. I am using DateFormat.getDateInstance
final DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM,
Locale.forLanguageTag(locale)));
This translates the dates but ja-JP this translates the date "17 January 2019" to "2019/01/17" but I need something like "2019年1月17日". For all other locales this correctly translates the date.
Please let know if there is other method to get this.
This worked for me:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
final DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL, Locale.JAPAN);
Date today = new Date();
System.out.printf("%s%n", dateFormat.format(today));
}
and MEDIUM
acted exactly how you said
UPD: or using newer ZonedDataTime as Michael Gantman suggested:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ZonedDateTime zoned = ZonedDateTime.now();
DateTimeFormatter pattern = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.FULL).withLocale(Locale.JAPAN);
System.out.println(zoned.format(pattern));
}