re: date format problem, JVM not taking account of QLOCALE value

["Ali Ekinci" <Ali.Ekinci@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Ali Ekinci  
> Sent: 23 December 2003 18:23
> To:   'java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:      re: date format problem, JVM not taking account of QLOCALE value
> 
> Hi All,
> I can not get JVM to get locale information from *sysval on AS400. I set 
> QLOCALE to one of the IBM supplied locale objects in qsys. 
> CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QLOCALE) VALUE('qsys.lib/EN_GB.locale') 
> When I run below java pgm, it always uses EN_US as the current locale even 
> though the system value points to another one. 
> Is there anything else to set? Can anybody tell me what I am missing?
> Thanks in advance.
> Ali
> 
> Java Class TestDateFormat:
> 
> import java.util.Date;                                                        
>         
> import java.util.Locale;                                                      
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> import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;                                            
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>                                                                               
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> public class TestDateFormat {                                                 
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>         
>   
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>       
>   // main                                                                     
>         
>   
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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>                                                                               
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>   public static void main(String[] pArgs)                                     
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>       throws IllegalArgumentException                                         
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> {                                                                             
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>                                                                               
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>     Date today;                                                               
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>     String dateOut;                                                           
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>     SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter;   
>     dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat();                                   
>        
> 
>     today = new Date();                                                       
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>     dateOut=dateFormatter.format(today);                                      
>        
>     System.out.println("Default locale: " + 
> Locale.getDefault().getDisplayName());   
>     System.out.println("The current date format is : "+ 
> dateFormatter.toPattern());  
>     System.out.println("The current date is . . . .: "+ dateOut);             
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>     System.exit(0);                                                           
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>                                                                               
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>     return;                                                                   
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>                                                                               
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>   }                                                                           
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> }                                                                             
>