build Date Format day-of-week Short : Date « Date Type « Android

1. Android
2. Date Type
3. Date

build Date Format day-of-week Short

     

/*
 *  This file is part of Shadowlands RoadTrip - A vehicle logbook for Android.
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jeremy D Monin <jdmonin@nand.net>
 *
 *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

//package org.shadowlands.roadtrip.android.util;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Vector;

import android.content.Context;
import android.text.format.DateFormat;
import android.util.Log;

/** Miscellaneous common static methods for Roadtrip activities. */
 abstract class Misc
{

  /**
   * DateFormatter (day-of-week + short date) for use by {@link DateFormat#format(CharSequence, Calendar)}.
   * Format will be: Day-of-week\nshort-date  or  Day-of-week short-date
   *<P>
   * @param ctx calling context, to get user's current date format
   * @param twoLines  If true, format includes <tt>\n</tt> between day of week and short date.
   * @return a StringBuffer usable in <tt>DateFormat.format</tt>
   */
  public static StringBuffer buildDateFormatDOWShort(Context ctx, final boolean twoLines)
  {
    // note use of android.text.format.DateFormat,
    // not java.text.DateFormat, throughout.

    StringBuffer fmt_dow_shortdate = new StringBuffer();
    final char da = DateFormat.DAY;
    final char qu = DateFormat.QUOTE;
    fmt_dow_shortdate.append(da);
    fmt_dow_shortdate.append(da);
    fmt_dow_shortdate.append(da);
    fmt_dow_shortdate.append(da);
    fmt_dow_shortdate.append(qu);
    if (twoLines)
      fmt_dow_shortdate.append('\n');
    else
      fmt_dow_shortdate.append(' ');
    fmt_dow_shortdate.append(qu);
    // year-month-date will be 3 chars: yMd, Mdy, etc
    final char[] ymd_order = DateFormat.getDateFormatOrder(ctx);
    for (char c : ymd_order)
    {
      fmt_dow_shortdate.append(c);
      fmt_dow_shortdate.append(c);
      if (c == DateFormat.YEAR)
      {
        fmt_dow_shortdate.append(c);
        fmt_dow_shortdate.append(c);
      }
      if (c != ymd_order[2])
        fmt_dow_shortdate.append("/");
    }

    return fmt_dow_shortdate;
  }


}

   
    
    
    
    
  

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