HerrB, if you're using a DateBox you can pretty easily get the behavior you're after by providing your own implementation of the DateBox.Format interface to the DateBox constructor. Your implementation can pretty much just be a simple wrapper around the Default one that adjusts the century to be 2000 when it's something like 10. It might be nice if the DefaultFormat had a setting like (http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/ SimpleDateFormat.html#set2DigitYearStart%28java.util.Date%29), but it's pretty easy to work around the lack of that method.
On Dec 1, 11:53 am, John Tamplin <j...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM, HerrB92 <herr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Err, yes ... I don't ever want a 2-digit year, also. > > > I have people, that enter "10" and expect to get "2010". Currently, > > you will get "0010" (with a "yyyy" pattern). > > > But I think, I get the point: If there is textfield and a user enters > > 1.1.10 and default date parsing is used (pattern "dd.MM.yyyy"), you > > will get a valid date object - 10 years AC. My request would mean, > > that if .format() is applied to that date, that the century is > > replaced by the guessed century, if the given century equals "00". > > My point is that you want to fix that at the point the date is entered, not > to just display the date differently, since many other things will depend on > the year being correct. > > Ie, Date d = fixMissingCentury(dtf.parse(dateField)); > > where fixMissingCentury detects a first-century year and changes it > according to your needs. > > -- > John A. Tamplin > Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
