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Display a date in different locales

Display a language/locale friendly version of New Year's Day for 2009 for several languages/locales. E.g. for languages English, French, German, Italian, Dutch the output might be something like:

Thursday, January 1, 2009
jeudi 1 janvier 2009
giovedì 1 gennaio 2009
Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009
donderdag 1 januari 2009

(Indicate in comments where possible if any language specific or operating system configuration needs to be in place.)
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java 1.5 or above
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(2009, Calendar.JANUARY, 1);
Locale[] locales = { ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, new Locale("nl") };

for (Locale l : locales) {
System.out.println(getDateInstance(FULL, l).format(cal.getTime()));
}
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csharp
using System.Globalization;

DateTime newYearsDay = new DateTime(2009, 1, 1);
CultureInfo[] locales = {
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"),
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("fr-FR"),
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("de-DE"),
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("it-IT"),
CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("nl-NL")
};

foreach (CultureInfo locale in locales)
{
Console.WriteLine(newYearsDay.ToString("D", locale));
}
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cpp Qt 4.x
QList<QLocale::Language> locales;
locales << QLocale::English
<< QLocale::French
<< QLocale::German
<< QLocale::Italian
<< QLocale::Dutch;

QDate date(2009, 1, 1);
foreach (QLocale::Language ll, locales)
{
QLocale::setDefault(ll);
qDebug() << date.toString(Qt::DefaultLocaleLongDate);
}
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fsharp
open System
open System.Globalization

let jan1 = DateTime(2009, 1, 1)

[ "en-US"; "fr-FR"; "de-DE"; "it-IT"; "nl-NL" ]
|> List.map CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture
|> List.map (fun c -> jan1.ToString("D", c))
|> List.iter (printfn "%s")

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