Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: SimpleDateFormat Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:12:35 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7578 On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:14:18 -0700 (PDT), 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 -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)