Kent Narling - 2008-06-02

Is it possible to somehow set the persian calendar to the default calendar?

ie so new java.util.Date().toString() would return the persian date?

I am asking since I would like to be able to use persian dates from within freemarker (www.freemarker.org) and this would simplify.

Or do you have any other suggestions how to use persian dates & formatting from within freemarker?

The only solution I can come up with so far is to create a call out like "givePersianDate(Date date)" etc but that is really a hack that will only support persian dates and no other calendars...