In the context of the original article addressing Java 8, in the java.time.format package, there's a DateTimeFormatterBuilder that removes the sub-language elem

In the context of the original article addressing Java 8, in the java.time.format package, there's a DateTimeFormatterBuilder that removes the sub-language element of the issue. With those builder methods, you can construct the fields in the order you want, with whatever precision, with padding, etc.