Android: How to change the DatePicker view date format from MM/dd/yyyy to dd/MM/yyyy?

Question

I have been trying to get an answer to this question for quite a while. I also had a look at the following link: Android - DatePicker Widget Format. On my phone/ emulator (

Answer 1

That setting is very specific. It is only meant to apply to dates dates shown in "short format". As long as you're using anything else (in this case, the DatePicker seems to be using "medium"), then those settings will be disregarded and the Locale's default formatting will take over.

I can confirm that if you change your phone's the language (and, effectively, the Locale) the order of the elements does changes in the date picker. Which I guess means I disagree with Dan S's assertion that "the system does not use any mechanism to localize the DatePicker". If you look at the code, you can see that (at least since 2.1), there's a reorderPickers() method that does exactly this.

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