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Java language problem.

Juan Manuel López — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:34:00 GMT

I have a aplication that uses java to get the weekday, from a java funtion.
I have /etc/TIMEZONE file good configurated:

TZ=MET-1METDST
export TZ

The problem is that the weekday format is in USA format, ( week starts on Saturday ), and I need to get the exit on spanish format ( week starts on Monday ).

Maybe, I need some patch or some java library.

My Java is RTE 3.1
My O.S. is HPUX 11.00

Can anybody give me some idea ?

Thanks in advance.

Juanma.

Re: Java language problem.

harry d brown jr — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:52:08 GMT

Actually in the US the start day is Sunday, but that doesn't matter. Have you looked at firstDayOfWeek ??

getFirstDayOfWeek
public int getFirstDayOfWeek()Gets what the first day of the week is; e.g., Sunday in US, Monday in France.
Returns:
the first day of the week.

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/icu4jhtml/com/ibm/util/Calendar.html#getFirstDayOfWeek()

live free or die
harry

Re: Java language problem.

Juan Manuel López — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:03:16 GMT

I do not know how the aplication people get the first day of the week. So I supose that use this funtion.
Sorry, it is true that the first day of the week on US is Sunday, sorry.
Could you please explain a little more about this ?.

Thanks.

Juanma.