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Neha
Neha

Reputation: 424

How to Convert given date into readable format in android

I am doing Json parsing and retrieving a Date from it. I am getting in this format 2012-07-24 but i want to display it in this format Tuesday July 24, 2012.

Can anybody suggest how I can achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1729

Answers (5)

jeet
jeet

Reputation: 29199

You need to use SimpleDateFormat for this purpose, do as follows:

SimpleDateFormat smf=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
Date dt=smf.parse(strDate, 0);
smf= new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE MMMM dd,yyyy");
String newFt=smf.format(dt);

Upvotes: 0

Nirali
Nirali

Reputation: 13805

You can try

    String date = "2012-07-24";
    try {
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        SimpleDateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd, yyyy");
        date = df2.format(format.parse(yourdate));
    } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Upvotes: 1

Ram kiran Pachigolla
Ram kiran Pachigolla

Reputation: 21191

use this below method

 SimpleDateFormat dfDate  = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
 SimpleDateFormat dfDate_day= new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE MMMM dd, yyyy");

 public String formatTimeDay(String str)
 {
    java.util.Date d = null;

    try {
        d = dfDate.parse(str);
    } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    str = dfDate_day.format(d);

    return str;
}

usage ====> formatTimeDay("2012-07-24");

Here

EEEE =====> day name (like Sunday, Monday)
MMMM =====> month name(like January, March)
dd   =====> day number of the present month
yyyy =====> present year

Upvotes: 0

Chintan Raghwani
Chintan Raghwani

Reputation: 3370

Use 

String s;
Format formatter;
                  //  vvvvvvvvvv  Add your date object here
Date date = new Date("2012-07-24");

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE MMMM dd, yyyy");
s = formatter.format(date);
System.out.println(s);

Upvotes: 1

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 7625

You can use SimpleDateFormat to parse and format the date. On the JavaDoc are lots of examples: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Upvotes: 2

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