I need to omit the year in the localized date. The localized DateFormat containing the year can be obtained by DateFormat.getDateInstance()

I cannot use SimpleDateFormat directly as I will have to assume the relative orderings. I was wondering if there is a way to determine the localized orderings of the parts, or get the format string itself, so that I can remove the y's from it and construct a SimpleDateFormat.

CodePudding user response：

Use FORMAT_SHOW_DATE or FORMAT_NO_YEAR to remove year from a date regardless of its locale:

 int flags = DateUtils.FORMAT_SHOW_DATE | DateUtils.FORMAT_NO_YEAR; 
 String monthAndDayWithoutYear = DateUtils.formatDateTime(context, millisecs, flags);