The i18n Cookbook - recipies for a global society

Problem:

You want to create a standard calendar as used in the west.

Solution:

The Gregorian Calendar is the predominant calendar of western countries today. To create a new Gregorian Calendar call the Singleton getInstance method on the Calendar class. if you specify a Locale as an argument the Calendar returned will reflect the first day of the week etc. of the Locale.

Locale locale = new Locale("en","US");
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(locale);