Hi Wayne, I have just got to the same homework and am also struggling with how the Locale fits in with the output of Calendar.DATE and Calendar.HOUR as there doesn't seem to be a way of varying this by passing a different Locale. Isn't the use of Locale.getDefault() and Locale.GERMAN for translating such items as the Month?
Did you manage to get anywhere with this at all? Any input would be great. Cheers, Paul On Feb 17, 4:41 am, Wayne Riesterer <nexus...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > 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
