How to display time in different languages using Java

Problem Description

How to display time in different languages?

Solution

This example uses DateFormat class to display time in Italian.

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.*;

public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      Date d1 = new Date();
      System.out.println("today is "+ d1.toString()); 
      Locale locItalian = new Locale("it");
      DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance (DateFormat.FULL, locItalian);
      System.out.println("today is "+ df.format(d1));
   }
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result.

today is Sat Feb 22 23:59:54 CST 2014
today is sabato 22 febbraio 2014