How to detect system date Format?

Could some one help to find out how to detect local system is in MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY format?
Thanks.

What happens when you run this code in a country where the default format is yyyy-MM-dd?
My advice is to either use the deault format for a given locale, or allow your app to be configured with a format.
demo:
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class RingingTheFormats {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Date now = new Date();
        for(Locale locale: Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {
            DateFormat fmt = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale);
            System.out.format("%20s %s%n", fmt.format(now), locale.getDisplayName());
}What's going on in the Japanese format? What is H21?
edit: [Heisei |http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisei] period. nvm.

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If any one know give me idea..
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