I want to display a date of birth based on the user locale. In my application, one of my fields is the date of birth, which is currently in the format dd/mm/yyyy
. So if the user changes his locale, the date format should also change accordingly. Any pointers or code samples would really help me to overcome the problem.
You can use the DateFormat class that formats a date according to the user locale.
Example:
String dateOfBirth = "26/02/1974";
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = null;
try {
date = sdf.parse(dateOfBirth);
} catch (ParseException e) {
// handle exception here !
}
java.text.DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(context);
String s = dateFormat.format(date);
You can use the different methods getLongDateFormat
, getMediumDateFormat
depending on the level of verbosity you would like to have.