Capital letter in SimpleDateFormat

Question

executing this piece of code:

SimpleDateFormat sdfIn = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
                            Date date = null;
                            try {
                                date = sdfIn.parse(value11);
                            } catch (ParseException e) {
                                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }

                            SimpleDateFormat sdfOut = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy");

                            System.out.println(sdfOut.format( date ));

I an getting this output nov 23, 2005 instead of Nov 23, 2005 which would be much better.
Does anybody knows how to change it?? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The exact strings that get generated depend on the locale you're in. If you just use

new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy");

then the system default locale will be used. Your default locale probably renders the month as nov rather than Nov.

if you want a specific locale to be used, pass it in to the constructor, e.g.

new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy", Locale.US);