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Is there a way to format time according to locale?
Yes. For formatting a time of day according to a user’s locale, get a formatter from DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedTime. For both date and time together use one of the overloaded versions of DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDateTime.
How to display UTC date in user’s locale format?
Bonus if I can output in the user’s locale date format. Seems the most foolproof way to start with a UTC date is to create a new Date object and use the setUTC… methods to set it to the date/time you want. Then the various toLocale…String methods will provide localized output.
How to format local date time in JavaScript?
In JS there are no simple and cross platform ways to format local date time, outside of converting each property as mentioned above. Here is a quick hack I use to get the local YYYY-MM-DD. Note that this is a hack, as the final date will not have the correct timezone anymore (so you have to ignore timezone).
How to display a UTC date in JavaScript?
I want the server to always serve dates in UTC in the HTML, and have JavaScript on the client site convert it to the user’s local timezone. Bonus if I can output in the user’s locale date format. Seems the most foolproof way to start with a UTC date is to create a new Date object and use the setUTC… methods to set it to the date/time you want.
What does time zone and locale mean in Java?
A time zone is an offset from UTC and a set of rules for Daylight Saving Time and other anomalies along with their historical changes. A Locale is a human language such as Français, plus a country code such as Canada that represents cultural practices including formatting of date-time strings.
Do you need Java to use oflocalizeddate?
DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate requires Api O minimum. Yes, java.time works nicely on older and newer Android devices. No, it does not require API level 26 or Oreo even though a message in your Android Studio might have you think that. It just requires at least Java 6.