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Changing Locale of a Calendar and the internals of Calendar.setTime()

Fri, 2006.09.22 - 11:33 — müzso
The Locale can be specified only at creation of a Calendar object, so if you wan't to change it after creation, then you have to do the following ...
public static Calendar changeLocale(Calendar cal, Locale loc) {
    Calendar tmpCal = null;
    if (cal != null) {
      tmpCal = Calendar.getInstance(loc); // create a new Calendar object with the desired Locale
      tmpCal.setTimeZone(cal.getTimeZone()); // copy the timezone ...
      tmpCal.setTime(cal.getTime()); // ... and the time from the original Calendar to the new one
    }
    return tmpCal;
}

P.S.: Actually setTime() and setTimeInMillis() in Calendar do exactly the same ... here's an excerpt from the source of Calendar for a proof:
public final void setTime(Date date) {
    setTimeInMillis(date.getTime());
}