Problem with calendar

[Felissa]

I am trying to create the following program, however, I have never been exposed to the calendar class. I looked at the APIs but it still doesn't make sense. Can anyone help me out?

Objective:

• Set a Locale object to France
• Create a Calendar instance for October 12th, 2007
• Create a Date Format instance that displays the date in the proper format

Thanks.
Felissa

[Marcus]

What do you have so far? The Locale class has a simple constructor:

Code:

Locale locale = new Locale( Locale.FRANCE );

Then you can get and set a Calendar class with something like:

Code:

 Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
 calendar.clear();
 calendar.set( 2007, 9, 12 ); // the month is zero based

And lastly, you can use the DateFormat.getDateInstance to help you format the date.

Greetings

Marcus

[Felissa]

This what I have so far:

Code:

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;

public class Calendar {
public static void main(String[] args) {

Date current = new Date ();
DateFormat DF = DateFormat.getDateInstance();

String str = DF.format(current);

System.out.println("Date: " + str);
}
}

I'm not sure how to add the locale or how to hard code the date.
Thanks
Felissa

Thanks for your time!!