Date Field class in J2ME

[yasomca]

hai friends,

Im using the class "DateField" which is in " java.util.Date" package.

like:
public DateField dob=new DateField("DOB",DateField.DATE);

Its working fine and its displaying the date as in the following format.

Thu sep 15:00:00:00 UTC 2005

But Can you plz tell me how to change this formate and to initialise this "dob" with a default value.


thanks in advance.
regards,
yafy.

[njzk2]

to set a value :
dob.setDate(Date date)
(as far as i know, the default value is either 'epoch' either 'now')

to change the format :
as far as i know, you can't, and it's implementation dependent, and therefore phone-dependent (sorry)
if you wan't to display a date with the format you want, use the Calendar class, which permits to get the informations about month, year, day, day of week ... independently, and then display it like you want, in an text field, but then you can't edit it

[yasomca]

hi njzk2 ,

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
But can u tell me whats 'epoch'.....

regards
yafy.

[njzk2]

the Unix epoch (which is used in Java) is 1st of january, 1970, 0:00 AM. It corresponds to 0 miliseconds
(the microsoft epoch is 1st of january year 0 (even if it does not exist) 0:00 AM, and then time is counted in ticks (100 nano), on a 64 bits integer. I don't know how it handles the various dates of application of the Gregorian reforms accordingly to the countries)

[vrushali.jadhav1234]

I am using DateField in my app it throws applicatin err if I enter Date 4-1-2080 in nokia 2730 it works fine with other dates .
pls give me solution