Using different locale with date format

Question

Hi guys,
I'm trying to print of the same date represented in its different locale but can't seem to get it right. I want the
dates and times to be represented appropriately (e.g., ?Feb? should be represented as ?f?vr.? in a
localized for France). I've also tried to use SimpleDateFormat but had no luck there either.
Locale[] locales = { new Locale("fr", "FR"), new Locale("zh", "CN"),
             new Locale("it", "IT") };
for (int i = 0; i < locales.length; i++) {
              //print date in the different locales
              try {
                   changeLanuage(locales);
          }catch(IOException e) {
               System.out.println("ERROR:");
          System.out.println()
public void changeLanuage(Local loc)
String dateString = "Sun Jan 27 01:56:00 GMT 2008"
// Get the default MEDIUM/MEDIUM DateFormat
String sdate = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(new Date());
System.out.println(sdate);
try {
Date date;
date = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, DateFormat.MEDIUM,loc).parse(sdate);
String output;
output = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL,loc).format(date);
outputStream.write(output);
}catch(ParseException pe) {
System .out.println("ERROR: for lanuage could not parse date in string \"" +
dateString + "\"");
pe.printStackTrace();
Running the code, at the terminal i get the following output.Apr 3, 2008 5:00:03 PM
ERROR: for lanuage could not parse date in string "Mon Jun 12 10:50:00 BST 2006"
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Apr 3, 2008 5:00:03 PM"
     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:335)
     at readParser.changeLanuage(readParser.java:275)
     at readParser.main(readParser.java:412)
If anyone can see what the problem is and how i can overcome it, i would greatly appreciate it if said so.
Thanks a Lot                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Answer 1

okay i've attempted date --> format but this getting the same exception throw at run time.
outputStream.write(present+" "+s.next()+"");
String dateString = "Mon Jun 12 10:50:00 BST 2006"
try {
     //parse with default format
      Date dtTmp = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy  H:mm:ss a",loc).parse(dateString);
      String strOutDt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(dtTmp);
     outputStream.write(strOutDt+"DONE");
}catch(ParseException pe) {
     System .out.println("ERROR: for lanuage could not parse date in string \"" +
     dateString + "\"");
     pe.printStackTrace();
}Any suggestions/help would be great, thanks
ERROR: for lanuage could not parse date in string "Mon Jun 12 10:50:00 BST 2006"
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Mon Jun 12 10:50:00 BST 2006"
     at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:335)
     at readParser.changeLanuage(readParser.java:261)
     at readParser.main(readParser.java:397)