[SOLVED] How to format a date with capitalized day and month names?

How to format a date with capitalized day and month names?

I'm from a Hispanic country and using a locale like new Locale("es", "ES"). I'm trying to format a date in this way:

Martes 7, Noviembre, 2013

I need the day name and the month name to begin with a capital letter as shown.

This is my code:

private static String formatDate(Date date) {
  Calendar calenDate = Calendar.getInstance();
  calenDate.setTime(date);
  Calendar today = Calendar.getInstance();
  if (calenDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) == today.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)) {
    return "Today";
  }
  today.roll(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -1);
  if (calenDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) == today.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)) {
    return "Yesterday";
  }
  // Guess what buddy
  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEEE d, MMMMM, yyyy");
  // This prints "monday 4, november, 2013" ALL in lowercase
  return sdf.format(date);
}

But I don't want to use some split method or do something like that. Isn't there some pattern that I can include in the regexp to make it be uppercase at the begin of each word?

UPDATE I get "martes 7, noviembre, 2013" in all lower case.

Solution

You can change the strings that SimpleDateFormat outputs by setting the DateFormatSymbols it uses. The official tutorial includes an example of this: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/dateFormatSymbols.html

Reproduction of the example from the tutorial, applied to the "short weekdays":

String[] capitalDays = {
    "", "SUN", "MON",
    "TUE", "WED", "THU",
    "FRI", "SAT"
};
symbols = new DateFormatSymbols( new Locale("en", "US"));
symbols.setShortWeekdays(capitalDays);

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("E", symbols);
result = formatter.format(new Date());
System.out.println("Today's day of the week: " + result);