Read Device's DateFormat

[mayankkedia]

Hi All,

Is there any way to read the date format specified on the device? I can read the locale through the system.property, but since J2ME doesn't support the locale class as such I cant read values from that, neither does it support SimpleDateFormat/DateFormat classes.

In such cases what is the choice I have if I want to format the date in my application based on the date format the user has set in the date/calendar settings on the device?

[grahamhughes]

There is no standard way to know this.

On Series 60 3rd Edition FP2 and later, you might be able to use:

String dateFormat = System.getProperty("com.nokia.mid.dateformat");
String timeFormat = System.getProperty("com.nokia.mid.timeformat");

These should use the same format as java.text.SimpleDateFormat in J2SE.

Graham.

[mayankkedia]

Thanks for the reply as always.

I am targetting S40 devices currently and going forward I would like to use pretty much the same codebase for non-Nokia devices as well. In such cases the solution mentioned will not work for me. Is there anything else that I can do to ensure the date shown in my application is in the format of the device?

[grahamhughes]

The only way is to include a date format as part of the localized text package. So, one of the strings in your text file would be "dd/mm/yyyy" or "mm/dd/yyyy" or "yyyy/mm/dd", depending on locale.

Graham.