Displaying AM and PM in lower case after date formatting

Question

After formatting a datetime, the time displays AM or PM in upper case, but I want it in lower case like am or pm.

This is my code:

public class Timei         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to do string substitution, and are using Java 8 javax.time:

Map ampm = new HashMap<>();
ampm.put(0l, "am");
ampm.put(1l, "pm");

DateTimeFormatter dtf = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
        .appendPattern("E M/d h:mm")
        .appendText(ChronoField.AMPM_OF_DAY, ampm)
        .toFormatter()
        .withZone(ZoneId.of("America/Los_Angeles"));

It's necessary to manually build a DateTimeFormatter (specifying individual pieces), as there is no pattern symbol for lowercase am/pm. You can use appendPattern before and after.

I believe there is no way to substitute the default am/pm symbols, making this is the only way short of doing the string replace on the final string.