Hello there JavaBeans :) I'm struggling to work out a method of completing the homework exercise for java_util.
Here is the task: "Display the Calendar.DATE, Calendar.HOUR using the locale of your country (you can use Locale.getDefault()) and German" (taken from javase_utilclasses/index.html) I thought that I could use the getDisplayName() method and pass in the appropriate arguments. When I did this, however, I kept getting null values for both Calendar.DATE and Calendar.HOUR fields. I checked the API documentation and saw that both of these fields are just Integer data types. In fact Calendar.DATE is a synonym for Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH and simply reports what day number of the month it is. So, I'm wondering, how would Locale apply in this situation? I even thought that if I tried other locales, there may be some kind of difference - but there didn't appear to be any variation at all. I ended up passing two locales to a display method that created Calendar objects using the provided locales. Once this was done, the display method then displayed the Calendar.DATE and Calendar.HOUR fields as required. It doesn't seem quite right though. I was even considering changing the time zones just to make the application seem like it is actually doing something useful - by this wasn't specified in the homework description. I don't want to submit my homework if I'm not quite sure that I've done it correctly. Any ideas, comments, ...abuse etc? Regards - Wayne (fellow JavaBean) -- To post to this group, send email to javaprogrammingwithpassion@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaprogrammingwithpassion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en
