String.format doesn't give month and weeknames in German locale

I'm using foll开发者_运维百科owing code in my app:

Calendar tmpCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
String itemTime = String.format(
        Locale.getDefault(),
        "%1$tA, %1$te. %1$tB %1$tY",
        tmpCalendar);

German is the default language on my device, so I'd expect to get something like:

Dienstag, 7. Juni 2011

Instead I'm getting:

3, 7. 6 2011

If I use Locale.US instead of Locale.getDefault() everything works fine. Am I doing something wrong?

Oddly, it works in an emulator running Android 2.2 in German, but not on a HTC Desire, also running 2.2. Why?

It seems to be a bug of some vendors and is issue #9453 in the Android issue tracker.

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EE/MM/yyyy");
Date date = new Date();
String sDate= sdf.format(date);

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It does exactly what you ask it to do. If you want to have fine-grain control over the process, you can always use SimpleDateFormat. However, I would rather recommend this method:

Calendar tmpCalendar = Calendar.getInstance(Locale.getDefault());
DateFormat formatter = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG, Locale.getDefault());
formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
String itemTime = formatter.format(tmpCalendar.getTime());

Also, I would recommend using DateFormat.DEFAULT but you expect long date format, so...