allow users to change the date format

Author: hyperdefined

src/main/java/lol/hyper/anarchystats/AnarchyStats.java

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public void onEnable() {
         if (commandTest != null) {
             logger.warning("We detected that /" + config.getString("info-command-override") + " is already taken by another plugin. There might be some issues with this. To change this, edit the info-command-override setting in the config.");
         }
-        
+
         this.getCommand(config.getString("info-command-override")).setExecutor(commandInfo);
         this.getCommand("anarchystats").setExecutor(commandReload);
         Bukkit.getScheduler().runTaskAsynchronously(this, () -> this.updateWorldSize(WorldSize.world, WorldSize.nether, WorldSize.end));

src/main/java/lol/hyper/anarchystats/MessageParser.java

@@ -3,11 +3,16 @@
 import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
 import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
 
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.time.LocalDate;
 import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
 import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
 
 public class MessageParser {
 
@@ -19,11 +24,20 @@ public MessageParser(AnarchyStats anarchyStats) {
 
     public List<String> getCommandMessage() {
         String date = anarchyStats.config.getString("date");
+        DateFormat originalFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("M/dd/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH);
+        DateFormat newFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(anarchyStats.config.getString("date-format"), Locale.ENGLISH);
+        Date originalDate = null;
+        try {
+            originalDate = originalFormat.parse(date);
+        } catch (ParseException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        String newDate = newFormat.format(originalDate);
         List<String> rawMessages = anarchyStats.config.getStringList("command-message");
         List<String> formattedMessage = new ArrayList<>();
         for (String x : rawMessages) {
             if (x.contains("{{STARTDATE}}")) {
-                x = x.replace("{{STARTDATE}}", date);
+                x = x.replace("{{STARTDATE}}", newDate);
             }
 
             if (x.contains("{{DAYS}}")) {

src/main/java/lol/hyper/anarchystats/WorldSize.java

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 
 public class WorldSize {
 
-
     public static Path world = null;
     public static Path nether= null;
     public static Path end= null;

src/main/resources/config.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ info-command-override: "info"
 # Format: MM/DD/YYYY. You must put zeros for single digits. Example: 06, 02, 01, etc.
 date: 05/27/2019 # This date is May 27th, 2019.
 
+# Change how the date is formatted on the command.
+# The default value will format the display like this: 05/27/2019 (MM/DD/YYYY).
+# You can find examples on how to custom this here: https://www.journaldev.com/17899/java-simpledateformat-java-date-format <- There is a chart at the bottom of the page.
+date-format: "M/dd/yyyy"
+
 # Some servers have different folder names for the worlds. Please update these to match yours.
 # Leave default if you didn't change the names.
 world-files: