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AlarmManager - How to set a Notification to appear annually

I want an notification to appear each year depending on the date entered (Birthday). I have everything else working bar how to set a notification annually. As you can see below I have changed the code to say "HERE" where the intervals go. There are intervals for days and I know I could multiply that by 365. But what happens if its a leap year..
int REQUEST_CODE = 7;
Intent intent = new Intent(Activity2.this, Receiver.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(Activity2.this, REQUEST_CODE, intent, 0);
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
am.setRepeating(am.RTC_WAKEUP, System.currentTimeMillis(), HERE, pendingIntent);

You could replace 'HERE' with a method that determines if the following February from today is in a leap year, and then returns the value 365 or 366 days (in the form of milliseconds mind you) based on those checks.
private long millisUntilNextYear(){
//Set days in a year for Leap and Regular
final int daysInLeapYear = 366;
final int daysInYear = 365;
//Get calendar instance
GregorianCalendar cal = (GregorianCalendar) GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
//Get this year and next year
int thisYear = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR);
int nextYear = thisYear + 1;
//Get today's month
int thisMonth = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.MONTH);
//Get today's date
int dayOfMonth = cal.get(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
//Is today before February? If so then the following February is in THIS year
if (thisMonth < GregorianCalendar.FEBRUARY){
//Check if THIS year is leapYear, and return correct days (converted to millis)
return cal.isLeapYear(thisYear) ? daysToMillis(daysInLeapYear) : daysToMillis(daysInYear);
}
//Is today after February? If so then the following February is NEXT year
else if (thisMonth > GregorianCalendar.FEBRUARY) {
//Check if NEXT year is leapYear, and return correct days (converted to millis)
return cal.isLeapYear(nextYear) ? daysToMillis(daysInLeapYear) : daysToMillis(daysInYear);
}
//Then today must be February.
else {
//Special case: today is February 29
if (dayOfMonth == 29){
return daysToMillis(daysInYear);
} else {
//Check if THIS year is leapYear, and return correct days (converted to millis)
return cal.isLeapYear(thisYear) ? daysToMillis(daysInLeapYear) : daysToMillis(daysInYear);
}
}
}

1) save dates in MM/DD/YY formats.
2) read these dates when you open your app(or at different times)
3) set alerts for single day/today it self.
Plus you can also show birthdays coming in next week/month etc.

Android TimePicker not returning user set time but realtime, convert to long

I have a custom dialog with a datepicker and a time picker in it. The user sets the Date which all works fine. The date picker is the hidden and the time picker is shown. I am currently setting the time on the timepicker manually to 8 am.
I now want to convert the user set time in the time picker to a long which I am able to do however its showing me the current time on the phone in the logcat and not the actual set time... Thanks!
button_continue.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
if (timeset == false) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.set(datePickerDiet.getYear(), datePickerDiet.getMonth(), datePickerDiet.getDayOfMonth());
long startTime = calendar.getTimeInMillis();
System.out.println(startTime);
// save to shared pref
ProfilePrerences.getInstance().setLongValue(DietActivity.this, ProfilePrerences.KEY_START_DIET_DAY, startTime);
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String dateString = formatter.format(new Date(startTime));
System.out.println(dateString);
datePickerDiet.setVisibility(View.GONE);
time_breakfast.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
dialog_txt.setText("At what time do you have breakfast?");
time_breakfast.setCurrentHour(8);
time_breakfast.setCurrentMinute(0);
time_breakfast.clearFocus();
timeset = true;
}
else if (timeset == true) {
// time_breakfast.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Calendar calendar2 = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar2.set(time_breakfast.getCurrentHour(), time_breakfast.getCurrentMinute(), 0);
long breakfasttime = calendar2.getTimeInMillis();
System.out.println(breakfasttime);
SimpleDateFormat formatter2 = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm");
String dateString2 = formatter2.format(new Date(breakfasttime));
System.out.println(dateString2);
// startdietdialog.cancel();
ProfilePrerences.getInstance().setLongValue(DietActivity.this, ProfilePrerences.KEY_BREAKFAST_TIME, breakfasttime);
timeset = false;
}
}
});

This line is causing you the problem:
calendar2.set(time_breakfast.getCurrentHour(), time_breakfast.getCurrentMinute(), 0);
This is setting the year, month, day on calendar2 - not the hour, minute, second you intended.
Probably the easiest solution is call the direct methods - setHour, setMinute, etc., on calendar2.

Two things: you're printing the current date (new Date):
String dateString2 = formatter2.format(new Date(breakfasttime));
System.out.println(dateString2);
You have to print calendar2 time:
String dateString2 = formatter2.format(calendar2.getTime());
System.out.println(dateString2);
The other is, Greg Ennis said, you're setting calendar2 time incorrectly: there is not such method to set only the hour, minutes and seconds. You should set year, month and day also or call set(Calendar.HOUR, h), set(Calendar.MINUTE, m), etc separately

Cant fetch current time, date showing year as 1970

public static final String inputFormat = "HH:mm";
private Date date;
private Date dateCompareOne;
private Date dateCompareTwo;
LINE 5:
private String compareStringOne = String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intFromTimeH)+ ":"+ String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intFromTimeM) ;
LINE 6:
private String compareStringTwo = String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intToTimeH) + ":"+ String.valueOf(SetTimeActivity.intToTimeM);
SimpleDateFormat inputParser = new SimpleDateFormat(inputFormat, Locale.US);
private void compareDates()
{
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = now.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
date = parseDate(hour + ":" + minute);
dateCompareOne = parseDate(compareStringOne);
dateCompareTwo = parseDate(compareStringTwo);
if (!(dateCompareOne.before( date ) && dateCompareTwo.after(date))) {
....
I am trying to check if current time falls between the specified time. For that I am converting the specified time into strings first (in Line5 & Line6). Even though I get the integer values correct, the string formed always shows "0:0".
Also, the year is shown as 1970 (The date & the day shown are wrong as well).
I need to get the current time. What am I doing wrong?
private Date parseDate(String date) {
try {
return inputParser.parse(date);
} catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
return new Date(0);
}
}

The parseDate() function returns the time elapsed since the 1st of January 1970. This is known as the Unix Epoch, and it's how all time is represented in Unix computers. By running the parseDate function on a string containing just hours and minutes, you're creating a Date object which represents a time HH:mm past the first of January 1970.
Your code is using a really odd way of getting the current time. Converting a Calendar to two ints, then to a string and finally parsing back to a Date is going to be inefficient and open you up to all sorts of needless errors.
When you initialise a new Date object it is automatically assigned the time of initialisation. Therefore:
Date d = new Date();
would result in d being the moment of initialisation (that is, this year, month, day, hour, minute, second and microsecond). Then you can just use Date.after() and Date.before().
If you still want to do it via the Calendar method, then you'd be better served by:
cal = Calendar.getInstance();
Date d = cal.getTime();
It may be that you've got other issues, but it's worth doing it properly first. When you pass data by writing it as a string (especially when it's time related, with all sorts of ambiguities about what "12" actually represents) you lose all the advantages that language typing gives you.

this code help you
final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
int minute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE); if (c.get(Calendar.AM_PM) == Calendar.AM)
am_pm = "AM";
else if (c.get(Calendar.AM_PM) == Calendar.PM)
am_pm = "PM";
// Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss a");
String formattedDate = df.format(c.getTime());
Toast.makeText(this, formattedDate, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

If you already work with Date objects why not using the Date.after(...) and Date.before(...) methods.

Determining if a time is between two other times

I am trying to take hours that I've parsed using SimpleDateFormat and determining whether or not the current time is between the two sets of hours. Basically, given a place's hours, I'm trying to determine if it is currently open our closed.
I am getting the current time by doing the following:
SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("kk:mm");
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
int hour = now.get(Calendar.HOUR);
int minute = now.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
String currentHour = Integer.toString(hour);
String currentMinute = Integer.toString(minute);
String timeNow = currentHour + ":" + currentMinute;
Date timeRightNow = sdf2.parse(timeNow);
Then, I determine whether timeRightNow is between the opening and closing times, I am doing the following:
if (timeOpen.before(timeRightNow) && timeClose.after(timeRightNow)) {
openStatus = "open!";
} else {
openStatus = "closed.";
}
Both timeOpen and timeClose are found by parsing a String using sdf2 in the exact same way as timeRightNow is found.
Every time that this runs, it sets openStatus to "closed." even when the current time is between the open and close times. Can anyone point me in the right direction to figure out why this is happening?

I changed Calendar.HOUR to Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY. This resolved the issue.

Android get dates as long values

How do I get 11:59 PM of the previous night and 12:00 AM of tonight expressed as long values???
So many different date options I'm confused

you can use this calculation to do so.
//11:59 PM of the previous night and 12:00 AM of tonight
Calendar prevDate = Calendar.getInstance();
if(prevDate.get(Calendar.DATE)==1)
{
if(prevDate.get(Calendar.MONTH)==0)
{
prevDate.set(Calendar.YEAR, prevDate.get(Calendar.YEAR)-1);
prevDate.set(Calendar.MONTH,Calendar.DECEMBER);
prevDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,31);
}
else
{
prevDate.set(Calendar.MONTH,prevDate.get(Calendar.MONTH)-1);
prevDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, prevDate.getMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
}
}
else
{
prevDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,prevDate.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)-1);
}
prevDate.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 11);
prevDate.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 59);
Calendar currDate = Calendar.getInstance();
currDate.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
currDate.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
long prevDateLong = prevDate.getTimeInMillis();
long currDateLong = currDate.getTimeInMillis();
Log.i("", prevDate.toString()+" >>>>>>>> "+currDate.toString());
Log.i("", prevDateLong+" >>>>>>>>> "+currDateLong);

All Java dates are longs underneath. It's the number of milliseconds since midnight on 1-Jan-1970.
Date today = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd").parse("2012-Oct-28"); // today at midnight
long millis = today.getTime();
I'd recommend that you look at the java.util.Calendar class. It's not hard, just tedious.
http://www.exampledepot.com/search/luceneapi_node/Calendar