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Re: SimpleDateFormat

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: SimpleDateFormat
Date	2011-09-05 13:11 -0700
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Roedy Green wrote:
> bob wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>> Anyone know how to use SimpleDateFormat to get a lowercase am and pm?
> 
> there is no built in code for that. Think instead how to convert your
> date/time string AM/PM to am/pm
> 
> There various ways you can do it with String.charAt String.indexOf
> String.toLowerCase

Or use Arne's suggestion, which has the virtue of being compact and employing the standard API without having to post-process the output of 'format()'.

-- 
Lew

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SimpleDateFormat bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-04 18:14 -0700
  Re: SimpleDateFormat Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-04 21:22 -0400
    Re: SimpleDateFormat Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-04 22:30 -0400
  Re: SimpleDateFormat Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-04 22:18 -0400
  Re: SimpleDateFormat Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-05 11:12 -0700
    Re: SimpleDateFormat Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-05 13:11 -0700
      Re: SimpleDateFormat Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-05 15:57 -0700
        Re: SimpleDateFormat Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-05 19:38 -0400
        Re: SimpleDateFormat Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-05 19:38 -0400
          Re: SimpleDateFormat Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 18:27 -0700
            Re: SimpleDateFormat Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-14 21:38 -0400
              Re: SimpleDateFormat RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2011-09-15 14:32 +0100
        Re: SimpleDateFormat markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-05 16:49 -0700
        Re: SimpleDateFormat Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-05 17:34 -0700
    Re: SimpleDateFormat Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-05 16:37 -0400

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