Java Locale Date Display Diff Format Prob

[hemanthjava]

I have written the below program to take the System Locale Language and the System Locale Country. Then Created the Locale Object and used it to format the Input Date to the Date of the Locale of the Client System. But there seems to be a difference in the formats displayed by the below Java Program as opposed to what is shown in my regional Settings as shown in the Screen shot.

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Locale;

public class DateUtilEx {

	public static void main(String args[]) {
		String dateInGermanFormat = "27.02.2009"; // Input Date in German Date Format

		String userLang = System.getProperty("user.language");
		String userCountry = System.getProperty("user.country");

		System.out.println("User Language : " + userLang + "\t"
										+ "userCountry : " + userCountry);
		Locale locale = new Locale(userLang, userCountry);

		DateFormat localeFormatter = DateFormat.getDateInstance(
										DateFormat.SHORT, locale);
		SimpleDateFormat germanFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
		try {
			System.out.println(localeFormatter.format(germanFormatter
												.parse(dateInGermanFormat)));
		} catch (ParseException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

Output
User Language : en userCountry : US
2/27/09

What I see in the Regional Settings (in the Screenshot) - Short Date: 02/27/2009

The year part is just 2 digits in the Java Program. Can you help me with this?

[hemanthjava]

Can anybody help regarding this problem.

[serjant]

DateFormat localeFormatter = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, locale);