RE: HebrewCalendar's getTime() does not report BCE dates as such.

[Nathan G. <nat...@ma...>]

Thank you much. Wasn't aware that one of the formatting parameters existed for the era.
I thought that it would/should report BC numbers as negative without [the need for] formatting.
Anyhow, thanks again.
-nat


-----Original Message-----
From: Steven R. Loomis [mailto:sr...@jt...] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 7:22 PM
To: Nathan Gross
Cc: icu...@ww...
Subject: Re: HebrewCalendar's getTime() does not report BCE dates as such.


On 01-Diċ-2003, at 3:56 PM, Nathan Gross wrote:
> Thanks for the help. Following is a simple example.

OK. The issue is that the format you used doesn't show the era. 
Consider:

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("", Locale.US);
         df.applyPattern("d MMMM, yyyy G");
         HebrewCalendar hc1 = new HebrewCalendar(3800,10,10);
         HebrewCalendar hc2 = new HebrewCalendar(3721,10,10);
         System.out.println("This is correct since its AD: "+ 
hc1.getTime());
         System.out.println("However, with a full format: " + 
df.format(hc1.getTime()));
         System.out.println("This is *wrong* since its BC: "+ 
hc2.getTime());

         System.out.println("However, with a full format: " + 
df.format(hc2.getTime()));
     }	


This is correct since its AD: Sat Jul 09 00:00:00 PST 0040 However, with a full format: 9 July, 0040 AD This is *wrong* since its BC: Sat Jun 12 00:00:00 PST 0040 However, with a full format: 12 June, 0040 BC  <--  (US locale)

Again, the milliseconds of the Date is correct, it was just that the 
formatter did not output the era.

Hope this helps,
  Regards,
  Steven