DateFormat

[tp knotts]

Help please!
According to ISO, http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/isocalendar.htm, Jan 26th should be week 4 of 2010 for DateFormat ww.
However, when I run the following, I get week 5:

String myStrDate = "01/26/2010";
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
Date myDate = df.parse(myStrDate);
String weekday = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE").format(myDate);
String ww = new SimpleDateFormat("ww").format(myDate);
System.out.print(myDate + "\n" + weekday + "\n" + ww);

[Ireneusz Kordal]

Number of week in a year depends on your locale.
Run this code:

public class Main1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
       Locale [] locales = Locale.getAvailableLocales();
       for(Locale l : locales){
           printt(l);
       }
    }

    static void  printt(Locale l) throws ParseException{
         String myStrDate = "01/26/2010";
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy",l);
        Date myDate = df.parse(myStrDate);
        String weekday = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE", l).format(myDate);
        String ww = new SimpleDateFormat("ww", l).format(myDate);
        System.out.print( myDate + " # " + ww + " # " + l.toString() + "\n");
    }
}    

and you'll get week 4 or 5 for different locales:

Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # ja_JP
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # es_PE
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # en
Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 3998 # 05 # ja_JP_JP
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # es_PA
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # sr_BA
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # mk
..................................
...................................
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 04 # el
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # ms
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 04 # sv_SE
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 04 # da_DK
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 CET 2010 # 05 # es_HN

[Larry Frissell]

the WEEK_OF_YEAR is defined in the API for the GregorianCalendar

Values calculated for the WEEK_OF_YEAR field range from 1 to 53. Week 1 for a year is the earliest seven day period starting on getFirstDayOfWeek() that contains at least getMinimalDaysInFirstWeek() days from that year. It thus depends on the values of getMinimalDaysInFirstWeek(), getFirstDayOfWeek(), and the day of the week of January 1. Weeks between week 1 of one year and week 1 of the following year are numbered sequentially from 2 to 52 or 53 (as needed).

[Jesper de Jong]

The Java classes DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat do not implement the ISO 8601 standard, they have their own rules as Larry quoted. So there's no reason to expect that it will behave the way the ISO 8601 standard specifies.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

and welcome to javaranch tp knotts