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Sir android
Sir android

Reputation: 123

Remove milliseconds and seconds from Joda time output

I am trying to output the time remaining to a certain date (15th of August in Madrid, Spain) and with my code I can get a TextView to display it correctly. However, it also displays milliseconds and seconds which I would like to remove, and also "months" that I would like to convert into days.

Could you give me a hand?

    DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/Madrid");
    DateTime target = new DateTime(2015, 8, 15, 0, 0, 0, timeZone);
    DateTime now = new DateTime(timeZone);
    Period period = new Period(now, target);

    PeriodFormatter formatter = PeriodFormat.getDefault();
    String output = formatter.print(period);
    TextView tv = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tv);
    tv.setText(output);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4579

Answers (2)

Meno Hochschild
Meno Hochschild

Reputation: 44071

A pure Joda solution looks like:

   DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forID("Europe/Madrid");
   DateTime target = new DateTime(2015, 8, 15, 0, 0, 0, timeZone);
   DateTime now = new DateTime(timeZone);
   Period period = new Period(now, target);

   PeriodFormatter formatter = PeriodFormat.getDefault();
   String output = formatter.print(period);
   System.out.println(output); // 4 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, 10 seconds and 817 milliseconds

   period = new Period(
     now, 
     target, 
     PeriodType.dayTime().withSecondsRemoved().withMillisRemoved());
   output = formatter.print(period);
   System.out.println(output); // 30 days and 17 hours

The decisive change is using a specialized variation of PeriodType.

As long as you only want full English words (using PeriodFormat.getDefault()) Joda-Time is fine (there is built-in support for 9 languages only - other libs have better i18n-features). Otherwise, duration handling and formatting is not offered at all by standard Java as the other wrong answer of @VV pretends.

Upvotes: 1

DKV
DKV

Reputation: 1767

Try this 

    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
    String formattedDate = df.format(c.getTime());  
    try {

        df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
        long timeStamp  = df.parse(formattedDate).getTime();
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Upvotes: 0

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