I would like to create a locale sensitive string (for presentation in the UI) *generally* looking like:
dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss a or yyyy/mm/dd HH.mm.ss I want the numeric date format set by the user in Settings (mm/dd/YYYY or YYYY/mm/dd), and time is either 12 or 24 hour time format as specified in Settings also. Android has several helper classes, for this, but none seem to fully meet my criteria. * java.DateFormat.createDateTimeInstance() : produces localized formats, but ignores what user has set for numeric date format and 12/24 format in Settings. * android.text.format.DateUtils.formatDateTime() : does not print seconds * android.text.format.DateFormat.getTimeFormat() : does not include seconds One hackish approach might be to use getTimeFormat, cast it back to a SimpleDateFormat, and use toPattern() and some magic to add ':ss' to the pattern, but this is gross and we don't really know what the localized separator is anyhow. So I have the following code, which seems rather ugly, but fixes the time into a non-localized format: // Get date format as specified in Settings DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(context); boolean is24HourFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.is24HourFormat(context); String timePattern = context.getString(is24HourFormat ? R.string.twenty_four_hour_time_format : R.string.twelve_hour_time_format); // Get 12 or 24 hour time format using timePattern DateFormat timeFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(timePattern); Date now = new Date(); return dateFormat.format(date) + ", " + timeFormat.format(date); With my own format strings: <string name="twelve_hour_time_format">h:mm:ss a</string> <string name="twenty_four_hour_time_format">HH:mm:ss</string> This seems like a huge mess, is there a better way to do this? Notice I had to provide my own template, but they are not localized for every locale. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
