how to get dateformat to capitalize month and day

java date capitalize
tristan202 picture tristan202 · Dec 11, 2010 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

I have my strings like so in my strings.xml:

<string name="day_format">EEEE</string>
<string name="date_format">dd. MMMM</string>
<string name="date_format_us">MMMM dd</string>

And I use them like this in the code:

    private void reinit() {
    mDayFormat = getString(R.string.day_format);
    if (!DateFormat.is24HourFormat(this))
    {
    mDateFormat = getString(R.string.date_format_us);
    }
    else {
        mDateFormat = getString(R.string.date_format);
    }
    mTimeFormat = is24HourMode(this) ? FORMAT_24_HOURS : FORMAT_12_HOURS;
    mCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
}

But it displays the day and the month in lowercase, and I want it to capitalize both. How can I achieve that?

Answer

Bozho picture Bozho · Dec 11, 2010

You can use WordUtils.capitalize(..) from commons-lang (on the result string)

(this is in case you want to capitalize - i.e. uppercase only the first letter. Otherwise you can simpyl use .toUpperCase())

Update: Since it appears this is android, you can open the sources of WordUtils and copy the implementation from there, rather than getting the whole library.

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