how to get dateformat to capitalize month and day

Question

I have my strings like so in my strings.xml:

EEEE
dd. MMMM         


        

Answer 1

There are more precise way of doing this. You can control each part of your formatter using DateFormatSymbols.

Look at that, this is beautiful:

Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormatFrom = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormatTo = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy");

DateFormatSymbols dateFormatSymbols = new DateFormatSymbols();
String[] months = simpleDateFormatTo.getDateFormatSymbols().getShortMonths();
for (int i = 0; i < months.length; i++) {
    months[i] = months[i].toUpperCase();
}
dateFormatSymbols.setShortMonths(months);
simpleDateFormatTo.setDateFormatSymbols(dateFormatSymbols);

Date date = simpleDateFormatFrom.parse(s.next());
System.out.println(simpleDateFormatTo.format(date));