Java Data and time pattern

Hello guy,
I have a problem with Java date and time. I am using the locale to format the date and time. I am using SimpleDateFormat for formatting the date. In windows the date formate is set as mm/dd/yyyy but in my program it show up as mm/dd/yy its loosing the last two digits in the year format. I do not understand why this is happenning.
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Thanks in advance.
Suman Mummaneni

Maybe you could paste some of the code you are using?

I tried the following

SimpleDateFormat fmt=new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy",Locale.US);
Date currDate=new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
System.out.println(fmt.format(currDate));

and got the expected output (as of today) which is 12/11/2006.

Can you post your code ?

Hi,
Here is my code, this is a small utility method that is supposed to return the current date & time string in the same format as the current system locale specifies.

public static String getDateandTime() { Date today = new Date(); DateFormat format = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, Locale.getDefault()); format.getCalendar().setLenient(false); return format.format(today); }

The output I get is "12/12/06 9:55:21 AM" but my Windows regional settings the short date format is specified as "mm/dd/yyyy" but as you can see in the result it is only giving me a two year digit value not a 4 year digit value as my system locale specifies.

Hi,
Here is my code, this is a small utility method that is supposed to return the current date & time string in the same format as the current system locale specifies.

public static String getDateandTime() { Date today = new Date(); DateFormat format = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance( DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, Locale.getDefault()); format.getCalendar().setLenient(false); return format.format(today); }

The output I get is "12/12/06 9:55:21 AM" but my Windows regional settings the short date format is specified as "mm/dd/yyyy" but as you can see in the result it is only giving me a two year digit value not a 4 year digit value as my system locale specifies.

Hello guys,
I found the solution for this. The same issue was also posted Sun Java forms
here is the link if your interestedJava Forums
Its a simple logic to convert the pattern into a localized pattern using the SimpleDateFormat class here is the logic

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = (SimpleDateFormat)DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, EdtStrings.getEdtLocale()); String pat = dateFormat.toLocalizedPattern(); int pos = pat.indexOf("yy"); if (pos >= 0) pat = pat.substring(0, pos) + "yy" + pat.substring(pos); dateFormat.applyLocalizedPattern(pat);