The i18n Cookbook - recipies for a global society

 Problem:

You want to retrieve all of the day of the week names for a locale.

Solution:

The DateFormatSymbols class contains a wealth of information useful to the localization programmer.  You can easily retrieve day names, month names, era names, etc...

To get the days of the week in Korean and English:

//Get a DateFormatSymbols object using a locale as an argument

DateFormatSymbols dfsKorean = new DateFormatSymbols(Locale.KOREAN);