Forcing YYYY in locale SHORT date format

Does anyone know how to force Java 1.2.2 to display the year in SHORT format as 4 digits without destroying the locale sensitivity of the application. Take the following line of code..
DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(value);
That snippet returns a string formatted for the default locale. In the USA this means the year will be displayed as 'YY'. The question is how to force SHORT to 'YYYY'.
I know I can switch to SimpleDateFormat and supply my own pattern. but then locale sensitivity is lost. For example, I can specify that the pattern is MM/dd/YYYY but this means all locales will use this format. Is that correct? Or does applyLocalizedPattern() in Java somehow translate my hardcoded pattern in a localized pattern.

I would imagine that the idea is that the locale defines its own SHORT format, and if you want the locale's SHORT format, you don't get to customize it--the SHORT format is what it is.
I don't know of a good answer to your problem, but if nobody comes up with anything better, I have a suggestion for a kludgey workaround.
Get the format for SHORT, do a regexp replace of "YYYY" for "YY" (making sure you don't already have "YYYY"), then create a new SimpleDateFormat from that.
Not pretty I know, but if nothing more elegant comes up, then it may at least get you the behavior you want.

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