Locale with SimpleDateFormat

[swati.jyoti]

What does that mean when instantiating a SimpleDateFormat object,specify a locale?

Its good programming practice..Can u explain with an example..I am not getting the thing...

[hardwired]

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

public class LocalDate {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String pattern = "hhmm ddMMMyyy";
        Locale[] locales = {
            Locale.CHINA, Locale.CHINESE, Locale.ITALY, Locale.ITALIAN,
            Locale.JAPAN, Locale.JAPANESE
        };
        for(int i = 0; i < locales.length; i++) {
            DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern, locales[i]);
            System.out.printf(" %s: %s%n",
                               locales[i].getDisplayName(),
                               df.format(new Date()));
        }
    }
}

[Eranga]

I'm not clear what you exactly talking about here. Seems to me is the following.

SimpleDateFormat class have a constructor as follows.

SimpleDateFormat(String pattern, Locale locale)

So I guess you have mess-up with Local object. Did you read the Java doc related to that? Here Locale object represent a specific geographical location. You can find around 20 Local fields in the Java doc, sorry I didn't remember exact figures here.

Is that what you are looking for?

[swati.jyoti]

Ya this was the same thing i m looking for...

Thanks...

[Eranga]

You got a nice example from harwired as well.