Thanks for your suggestion Mihai. I did this to get a better understanding of the locale functionality and it worked :)
Regards - Wayne Riesterer On Mar 2, 2:07 pm, Mihai DINCA <mihai.di...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi Paul > > Try locale-dependent things, for example "toString()", > "getFirstDayOfWeek()" and so on. > > Hope it helps > Mihai > > Le 01/03/2011 22:47, Paul Wigham a crit : > > > > > 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
