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brig
brig

Reputation: 3773

How to get Date object in “YYYY-MM-DD” format in android

I have a requirement that I need to compare two Dates. One Date will come from DB which is String in "YYYY-DD-MM" firm and I need to compare this String Date with current Date.

for this I am converting Date String into Date object.

Now I need current Date also in "YYYY-MM-DD" format and it should be Date object so that I can use.compareTo() method compare two dates..

Please help me how to do that...

Upvotes: 22

Views: 61606

Answers (6)

HASSNA AIT-ALI
HASSNA AIT-ALI

Reputation: 1

You can call SimpleDateFormat , and from simpledateformat you will access to current date in string forme.

    SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    String currentTime=simpleDateFormat.format(new Date());
    Log.d("Currentdate",currentdate);

Upvotes: 0

Avi Kumar
Avi Kumar

Reputation: 4433

You can do it in following way

// pick current system date

    Date dt = new Date();

// set format for date

   SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

 // parse it like

        String check = dateFormat.format(dt);


        System.out.println("DATE TO FROM DATEBASE   " + 
                arrayOfStringDate[d].toString());
        System.out.println("CURRENT DATE   " + check);

// and compare like

System.out.println("compare    "+ 
        arrayOfStringDate[d].toString().equals(check));

Upvotes: 6

PrincessLeiha
PrincessLeiha

Reputation: 3174

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat tf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String time=DB time;
Date parseTime= tf.parse(time);
Integer dayNow=c.getTime().getDate();
Integer dayDb=parseTime.getDate();

then you can compare dayNow and dayDb.

Upvotes: 5

Zaz Gmy
Zaz Gmy

Reputation: 4356

 Date cDate = new Date();
 String fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(cDate);

Upvotes: 65

gutiory
gutiory

Reputation: 1135

You can use 2 ways:

  1. DateFormat object. Use parse method.

  2. Make your own parser of the Date. I mean, you convert the year, month and day in an integer each, and use Date constructor to get the Date.

Upvotes: 3

Anthony Grist
Anthony Grist

Reputation: 38345

If your current date is actually an instance of the java.util.Date class, you don't need to specify a format for it; it's just a millisecond value that represents a specific moment in time.

You can get the current date like so:

Date currentDate = new Date();

Upvotes: 4

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