Question: I want to convert a Date in to Russian and using the code below

```
SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance(SimpleDateFormat.LONG,locale).format(date);

```

where locale is of type Locale
The problem is months are not parsed correctly . January is coming as "январь" it should be "января" and February is coming as "февраль" should be "февраля"

and so on...

One idea is to convert incorrect months to proper ones in my logic

Is there any thing by which Java do this automatically ?

Thanks

Answer: 
While an accepted answer of @Meno Hochschild and <https://stackoverflow.com/a/27421103/2914140> are correct, I want to add a little.

It's enough to set `Locale("ru")`, then create and apply `sdf.format(date)`. 

```
public static String formatDate(long date, String format) {
    Locale locale = new Locale("ru");
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format, locale);
    return sdf.format(date);
}

```

But if you want to customize it, I will show a process.

After many exceptions I realized that weekdays start not from Monday (see <http://jexp.ru/index.php/Java_Tutorial/Data_Type/Date_Format#Change_date_formatting_symbols>)!

```
public static String formatDate(long date, String format) {
    //Locale locale = new Locale("fr");
    Locale locale = new Locale("ru");
    DateFormatSymbols dfs = DateFormatSymbols.getInstance(locale);
    String[] months = {
            "января", "февраля", "марта", "апреля", "мая", "июня",
            "июля", "августа", "сентября", "октября", "ноября", "декабря"};
    String[] shortMonths = {
            "янв", "фев", "мар", "апр", "май", "июн",
            "июл", "авг", "сен", "окт", "ноя", "дек"};
    dfs.setMonths(months);
    dfs.setShortMonths(shortMonths);
    String[] weekdays = {"", "Воскресенье", "Понедельник", "Вторник", "Среда", "Четверг", "Пятница", "Суббота"};
    String[] shortWeekdays = {"", "вс", "пн", "вт", "ср", "чт", "пт", "сб"};
    dfs.setWeekdays(weekdays);
    dfs.setShortWeekdays(shortWeekdays);

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format, locale);
    sdf.setDateFormatSymbols(dfs);
    return sdf.format(date); // пт, 09 декабря 2016
}

```
AFAIK, there's no support for localisation in accusative case in the JDK. I would suggest to use the `MEDIUM` date format to work around that if it's suitable:
`15 Фев 1999`

Failing that you may end up having to provide your own localisations for month names.