It uses DateFormat.getDateInstance(style, locale). How Java handles the locale don't know, but it hadles it correctly: According to Polish rules it should be (and IS) yyyy-MM-dd.
Well, I don't agree, that Polish date _should_ be yyyy-MM-dd. Try to look in Polish dictioaries. I've checked PWN and they say that the right way of writting date is dd.MM.yyyy. Check fallowing address:
http://slowniki.pwn.pl/poradnia/lista.php?szukaj=daty&kat=18
The problem was metioned sevral times and the answer was always the same.
Here is quotation (in Polish unfortunately) from ortography dictionary:
âWyjÄwszy szczegÃlne wypadki, takie jak wymogi komputerowego przetwarzania danych lub zasady urzÄdowe i prawne, nie naleÅy stosowaÄ innych znakÃw do oddzielania poszczegÃlnych skÅadnikÃw daty (np. dywizÃw: 1-1-1995) ani teÅ stosowaÄ innego szyku niÅ: dzieÅ, miesiÄc, rokâ â czytamy w Wielkim sÅowniku ortograficznym PWN, s. 121.
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