Formatting Messages: Change Era

  

/*
Java Internationalization
By Andy Deitsch, David Czarnecki

ISBN: 0-596-00019-7
O'Reilly
*/
import java.text.*;
import java.util.Date;

public class ChangeEra {
  public static void main(String s[]) {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat();
    DateFormatSymbols dfs = sdf.getDateFormatSymbols();

    String era[] = { "BCE", "CE" };
    dfs.setEras(era);
    sdf.setDateFormatSymbols(dfs);

    sdf.applyPattern("MMMM d yyyy G");
    System.out.println(sdf.format(new Date()));
  }
}

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