A nice cross-locale same-width DateTime.toString()?

[Weijun Wang]

Hi All

We have a command line tool that needs to print out date/time in a 
table. The current Date.toString() always has the same width and it's 
beautiful:

        76 Tue Nov 10 08:57:54 CST 2009 bin/vbin/go
      1149 Sun Apr 08 16:03:20 CST 2012 bin/vbin/netbeans
       170 Fri Nov 20 16:47:42 CST 2009 bin/vbin/syncdown
       671 Wed Feb 08 20:11:22 CST 2012 bin/vbin/ssh.desktop
       187 Fri Nov 20 16:47:34 CST 2009 bin/vbin/syncsf

However, both the DOW and MON are English and might make non-English 
users unhappy.

On the other hand, DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance() knows about locale 
but the output is not the same width.

        76 Nov 10, 2009 8:57:54 AM bin/vbin/go
      1149 Apr 8, 2012 4:03:20 PM bin/vbin/netbeans
       170 Nov 20, 2009 4:47:42 PM bin/vbin/syncdown
       671 Feb 8, 2012 8:11:22 PM bin/vbin/ssh.desktop
       187 Nov 20, 2009 4:47:34 PM bin/vbin/syncsf

or when -Duser.language=fr

        76 10 nov. 2009 08:57:54 bin/vbin/go
      1149 8 avr. 2012 16:03:20 bin/vbin/netbeans
       170 20 nov. 2009 16:47:42 bin/vbin/syncdown
       671 8 févr. 2012 20:11:22 bin/vbin/ssh.desktop
       187 20 nov. 2009 16:47:34 bin/vbin/syncsf

Is there a nice way to make the output same width and locale aware?

I can wait for JDK 8.

Thanks
Max