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-- DateFormat helps you to format and parse dates for any locale. DateFormat provides many class methods for obtaining default date/time formatters based on the default or a given locale and a number of formatting styles. The formatting styles include FULL, LONG, MEDIUM, and SHORT. You can pass in different formatting style to these factory methods to control the length of the result but the exact result also depends on the locale, but generally: SHORT is completely numeric, such as 12.13.52 or 3:30pm MEDIUM is longer, such as Jan 12, 1952 LONG is longer, such as January 12, 1952 or 3:30:32pm FULL is pretty completely specified, such as Tuesday, April 12, 1952 AD or 3:30:42pm PST. Use getDateInstance to get the normal date format for that country. For example, import java.text.DateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class DateFormatExample { public static void main(String[] args) { Date now = new Date();