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General Points of Internationalization Programming
String Format

1. Fixing String Format is not recommended.
   • Date and currency should be shown in accordance to the format of the user's language. In the next Java codes, date will be shown in Japanese format even to non-Japanese natives.

     SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
     String time = sdf.format(new Date());
     

     Java has the specification of getting format automatically from the locale setting, so the following codes should work without any specified format:

     DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
     String time = df.format(new Date());
     

     Other major programming languages also have libraries that can convert to formats corresponding to locales. Please refer to the locale issues for more details in each language chapter.
     (However, there are cases wherein dates are purposely handled with international standard format to be able to use them commonly within a system.)

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