[VELTOOLS-144] DateTool can be improved to allow cross-localization of format strings

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.x, 3.0
• Component/s: GenericTools
• Environment: All VELTOOLS versions
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christopher Schultz
• Created: 21/Jul/11 15:37
• Updated: 07/Jan/18 19:35
• Resolved: 21/Jul/11 17:16

Description

I thought I had reported this earlier, but evidently not.

We use SimpleDateFormat patterns (which are always specified in English-style yyyy-MM-dd form) all over our application and we'd like to be able to display those patterns in a locale-sensitive way (for instance aaaa-MM-jj in the FR locale). DateTool is in a nice position to be able to do this conversion for us, since it wraps a SimpleDateFormat object.