Convert long timestamp to Java.util.Date in french

Question

I want to know how I can convert a timestamp in the date format. For example : 1415337782000 should be converted to "7 nov. 2014".

This is what I've tried so far :

Date date=new Date(location.date);
SimpleDateFormat df = (SimpleDateFormat) SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance(SimpleDateFormat.MEDIUM);
String dateText = df.format(date);

The timestamp is stored in location.date in long type.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

You can pass a format to the SimpleDateFormat constructor, like this

SimpleDateFormat format= new SimpleDateFormat("d MMM, yyyy");
String dateText = format.format(new Date());

You can find the constants in this link:

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

For better internationalization, you can define a string resource containing the desired format based on the location of the user. Something like

SimpleDateFormat  format = new SimpleDateFormat(getResources().getString(R.string.YOUR_FORMAT));