Format date without year

Question

How can create text representation of some date, that takes locale into account and contains only day and month (no year)?

Following code gives me s

Answer 1

I did it this way:

DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, Locale.getDefault());
if (dateFormat instanceof SimpleDateFormat) {
    SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = (SimpleDateFormat) dateFormat;
    String pattern = simpleDateFormat.toPattern();

    // I modified the pattern here so that dd.MM.yyyy would result to dd.MM

    simpleDateFormat.applyPattern(modifiedPattern);

    ... etc
}