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androidsimpledateformat
Pengume
Pengume

Reputation: 570

how to format a date?

Hello I have been trying to format this date but it keeps giving me in unparsable date error? I am trying to get a time stamp like 2011-06-24T19:55:37Z to be June 24, 2011. here is the code I am using. Also on a side note is contraction (like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd) possible?

 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM d, yyyy", Locale.US);
 Date dt = sdf.parse("2011-03-01T17:55:15Z");
 time.setText("Time: " + dt.toString());

Upvotes: 0

Views: 979

Answers (2)

Graham
Graham

Reputation: 661

This comes from another question within stackoverflow

Date date = new Date(location.getTime()); 
DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext()); 
mTimeText.setText("Time: " + dateFormat.format(date)); 


DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS -05:00");
Date date = (Date)formatter.parse("2011-06-24T19:55:37Z");

Make sure the SimpleDateFormat matches your string

Upvotes: 0

David Snabel-Caunt
David Snabel-Caunt

Reputation: 58379

The problem is that the format provided to SimpleDateFormat's constructor doesn't match the format of your date.

The string MM d, yyyy tells SimpleDateFormat how to interpret 2011-03-01T17:55:15Z.

Building a format string is described in the docs.

Upvotes: 2

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