CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androiddatedate-formatsimpledateformat
yashhy
yashhy

Reputation: 3086

formatting date in android

I'm trying to display date which I already have to a new format, i'm using SimpleDateFormat for this.

Android Code

String date = "2013-08-11 20:38 EDT";
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm a");
try {
    newDate = sf.format(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd kk:mm z").parse(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

It displays : 11 August 2013 08:38 PM

However if I run the same code in JAVA (as a normal JAVA console application)

JAVA

String date = "2013-08-11 20:38 EDT";
SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm a");
String lDate = sf.format(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd kk:mm z").parse(date));
System.out.println(lDate);

It displays : 12 August 2013 06:08 AM

This is the format which I need to display.

P.S. : I got a warning in android saying

To get local formatting use getDateInstance(), getDateTimeInstance(), or getTimeInstance(), or use new SimpleDateFormat(String template, Locale locale) with for example Locale.US for ASCII dates.

so I tried adding Locale.US to SimpleDateFormat it again show the 11 August 2013 08:38 PM and not 12 August 2013 06:08 AM

My Question is : how to display date as 12 August 2013 06:08 AM in android.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1654

Answers (3)

Mina Fawzy
Mina Fawzy

Reputation: 21452

try this code

SimpleDateFormat simple = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMMM yyyy hh:mm a" , java.util.Locale.getDefault());

Upvotes: 0

洛子情也Container
洛子情也Container

Reputation: 1

new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.S", Locale.US)

You should specify the time zone

Upvotes: 0

laalto
laalto

Reputation: 152787

Your local time IST is UTC+05:30, your Android time EDT is UTC-04:00. Together they add to 9h30min of difference explaining the difference in output.

Set your Android device to IST timezone to get the same output.

Alternatively, you can call setTimeZone() on the DateFormat to explicitly set a timezone to use.

It is also helpful to explicitly print timezone information to make datetime stamps less ambiguous.

Upvotes: 2

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