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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.

How to compare two Date and Time and get Day,Month,hour,min in Android?

I Have this type of Date in String Format 01-18-2013 06:43:35 Now, i want to compare this Date with Current Date and Time and get Day, Month, Hour, Min, .. I Searched this link but didn't get any Solution...Please share some solution..Thank you..

This might help,
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DateFormat.html
You can parse the Date from string using
DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
myDate = df.parse(myString);

If I get your question, you would like to Compare a Date object with the current date..
Let's say that 'date' is the Date object you want to compare with the current date:
Why don't you just do something like date.after(new Date()) or date.before(new Date()) as suggested form the android doc?

You can get UTC with
new SimpleDateFormat("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss").parse("01-18-2013 06:43:35").getTime();
Then compare the result with
System.currentTimeMillis();

this may helps you to calculate to diffrent date time in millisecond
try{
Calendar calender = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar calDb = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar matchd = Calendar.getInstance();
mYear = calender.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mMonth = calender.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mDay = calender.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
mendYear = calDb.get(Calendar.YEAR);
mendMonth = calDb.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mendDay = calDb.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
// Here you can change day values
calDb.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, mDay-1);
strbeforedate = mDateFormat.format(calDb.getTime());
curentdate = mDateFormat.format(calender.getTime());
calDb.setTime(mDateFormat.parse(strbeforedate));
calender.setTime(mDateFormat.parse(curentdate));
String mydate = "2013.03.14 03:11";
String mdatetime = "";
deletepath = new ArrayList<String>();
for(int i=0;i<result.length;i++){
try{
// here your matching goes and pass date here
matchd.setTime(mDateFormat.parse(mdatetime));
long diff = calDb.getTimeInMillis() - calender.getTimeInMillis();
long matchdiff = matchd.getTimeInMillis() - calender.getTimeInMillis();
if(diff < matchdiff){
// do your work here
}else{
// do your else work here
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

How to get First Day and last day of the week of a date

I am using DatePickerDialog to show the calender. I want to access First day and last day of the week of the date selected.
Here is what I have tried
this.tv_date.setText( new StringBuilder()
// Month is 0 based so add 1
.append(mDay).append("-")
.append(monthName).append("-")
.append(mYear).append(""));
tv_date.setHighlightColor(Color.CYAN);
String str=mDay+"-"+mMonth+"-"+mYear;
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
sdf.format(""+str); //here I am getting exception
Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
int s= cal.getFirstDayOfWeek();
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "first day of the week : "+s, 1).show();
But I am getting "IllegalArguementException".
Please help me
Thanks

sdf.format(""+str); - is wrong. You either need to pass a Date object to it, or else, change it to sdf.parse(str); to get a Date object from it.
Edit:- To get the first day of the week, do this.
String str=mDay+"-"+mMonth+"-"+mYear;
SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
Date myDate = new Date();
try{
myDate = sdf.parse(str);
}catch(ParseException pe){
// Do Something
}
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(myDate);
cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1);
int s = cal.get(Calendar.DATE);

Here is an example of calculating the first day of week.
private void firstDayOfThisWeek(){
DateTime today = DateTime.today(TimeZone.getDefault());
DateTime firstDayThisWeek = today; //start value
int todaysWeekday = today.getWeekDay();
int SUNDAY = 1;
if(todaysWeekday > SUNDAY){
int numDaysFromSunday = todaysWeekday - SUNDAY;
firstDayThisWeek = today.minusDays(numDaysFromSunday);
}
System.out.println("The first day of this week is : " + firstDayThisWeek);
}
Instead of assigning today you can assign any other day with exact format

Best way to format a date relative to now on Android

I am creating a feature in an Android app to get an arbitrary date (past, present or future) and find the difference relative to now.
Both my now and due variables are longs, and this is my code:
long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
long due = now + 864000;
Log.d("Time in 1 day", DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(due,now, DateUtils.DAY_IN_MILLIS));
I want the output to be something like yesterday, today, in 4 days or 19/12/2012. However, the current output returns in 0 days...
I don't want the time to appear on these date strings.
What am I doing wrong and is the best method for formatting dates on Android?

What I have in mind is changing:
DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(due, now, 0L, DateUtils.FORMAT_ABBREV_ALL);
Since the documentation says it returns the time relative to now.
If that fails use some of the brilliant libraries:
Joda Time
PrettyTime
TimeAgo

Finally I have implemented what you wanted..!
First you need to download Joda Time from here
Extract it to any folder and put joda-time-2.2.jar into androidProject/libs folder.
MainActivity
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.Days;
import org.joda.time.Months;
import org.joda.time.MutableDateTime;
import org.joda.time.Weeks;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.util.Log;
public class MainActivity extends Activity
{
private int day ;
private int month ;
private int year ;
private int hour ;
private int minute ;
private long selectedTimeInMillis;
private long currentTimeInMillis;
private String strDay ="";
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
year = 2013;
month = 8;
day = 10;
hour = 15;
minute = 28;
DateTime selectedTime = new DateTime(year,month,day,hour,minute);
selectedTimeInMillis = selectedTime.getMillis();
MutableDateTime epoch = new MutableDateTime();
epoch.setDate(selectedTimeInMillis); //Set to Epoch time
DateTime now = new DateTime();
currentTimeInMillis = now.getMillis();
int days = Days.daysBetween(epoch, now).getDays();
int weeks = Weeks.weeksBetween(epoch, now).getWeeks();
int months = Months.monthsBetween(epoch, now).getMonths();
Log.v("days since epoch: ",""+days);
Log.v("weeks since epoch: ",""+weeks);
Log.v("months since epoch: ",""+months);
if(selectedTimeInMillis < currentTimeInMillis) //Past
{
long yesterdayTimeInMillis = currentTimeInMillis - 86400000;
DateTime today = new DateTime(currentTimeInMillis);
int year = today.getDayOfYear();
int intToday = today.getDayOfMonth();
DateTime yesterday = new DateTime(yesterdayTimeInMillis);
int intYesterday = yesterday.getDayOfMonth();
DateTime selectedDay = new DateTime(selectedTimeInMillis);
int intselectedDay = selectedDay.getDayOfMonth();
int intselectedYear = selectedDay.getDayOfYear();
if(intToday == intselectedDay & year == intselectedYear)
{
strDay = "today";
}
else if(intYesterday == intselectedDay)
{
strDay = "yesterday";
}
else
{
strDay = "before "+ days +" days from today";
}
}
else if(selectedTimeInMillis > currentTimeInMillis) //Future
{
long tomorrowTimeInMillis = currentTimeInMillis + 86400000;
DateTime tomorrow = new DateTime(tomorrowTimeInMillis);
int intTomorrow = tomorrow.getDayOfMonth();
DateTime today = new DateTime(selectedTimeInMillis);
int intToday = today.getDayOfMonth();
if(intToday == intTomorrow)
{
strDay = "tomorrow";
}
else
{
days = -days;
strDay = "after "+ days +" days from today";
}
}
Log.v("strDay: ",""+strDay);
}
}
You just need to change the value of day and you will get the desire output.
Currently I have given date 10 as input so output will be today.
I have set date/day = 10 , month = 8 , year = 2013 , hour = 15 , min = 28
For past dates:
input day 9 output yesterday
input day 3 output before 7 days from today
input year 2012 and day 10 output before 365 days from today
For future dates:
input day 11 output tomorrow
input day 27 output after 17 days from today
input day 23 and year 2016 output after 1109 days from today

Why not just check for yesterday and tomorrow to avoid the in 0 days/0 days ago bug and leave DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString handle the remaining cases?
String relative = null;
if(now < due && (due-now)<864000){
relative = "tomorrow";
}else if(now > due && (now-due)<864000){
relative = "yesterday";
}else{
relative = DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(due, now, DateUtils.DAY_IN_MILLIS); // e.g. "in 4 days"
}
Log.d("result", relative);
Edit: You may also add today with a simple check as well.

Best way to format a date relative to now on Android
I suggest you to use JodaTime
It's lightweight handy library and i think actually the best tool for working with Date instances.
And you can start here.

build.gradle
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.9.9'
Utils.java
private static SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy");
private static SimpleDateFormat TIME_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat(" 'at' h:mm aa");
public static String getRelativeDateTimeString(Calendar startDateCalendar) {
if (startDateCalendar == null) return null;
DateTime startDate = new DateTime(startDateCalendar.getTimeInMillis());
DateTime today = new DateTime();
int days = Days.daysBetween(today.withTimeAtStartOfDay(), startDate.withTimeAtStartOfDay()).getDays();
String date;
switch (days) {
case -1: date = "Yesterday"; break;
case 0: date = "Today"; break;
case 1: date = "Tomorrow"; break;
default: date = DATE_FORMAT.format(startDateCalendar.getTime()); break;
}
String time = TIME_FORMAT.format(startDateCalendar.getTime());
return date + time;
}
Output
Yesterday at 9:52 AM
Today at 9:52 AM
Tomorrow at 9:52 AM
Sep 05, 2017 at 9:52 AM

The actual reason is the number 864000 is in miliseconds, which corresponds to 14 minutes. 14 minutes is so small compared to DAY_IN_MILLIS (a day). There for you get "in 0 days".
If you want it to produce "in 14 mins", just change DAY_IN_MILLIS to MIN_IN_MILLIS.

I came here for an alternative but I can't find perfect rather than my code.
So I shared here any improvements are welcome.
public String getCreatedAtRelative() {
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", Locale.US);
df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("IST"));
CharSequence relative = null;
try {
relative = DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(df.parse(createdAt).getTime(), new Date().getTime(),
0L, DateUtils.FORMAT_ABBREV_ALL);
} catch (ParseException e) {
Log.e("Parse Exception adapter", "created at", e);
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
if (null == relative) {
return createdAt;
} else {
return relative.toString().replace(".", " ");
}
}

So your computation is based on milliseconds unit, then you format the result with SimpleDateFormat.
For this, you can easily use SimpleDateFormat formatter like this :
Date date = new Date(milliseconds);
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE dd MMMM yyyy");
String strDate = formatter.format(date);
So your computation should be based on milliseconds unit, then you format the result with SimpleDateFormat.
The pattern ("EEEE dd MMMM yyyy") allows you to get a date format like Monday, 04 February 2013.
You can change the pattern as you like : "EEEE dd/MM/yy", ...

for Android you can use most simple way with Joda-Time-Android library:
Date yourTime = new Date();
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(yourTime); //or simple DateTime.now()
final String result = DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(getContext(), dateTime);

long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
DateUtils.getRelativeDateTimeString(mContext, now), DateUtils.SECOND_IN_MILLIS, DateUtils.DAY_IN_MILLIS, 0)
a link!

Android: Date (year,month,day) [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
How to compare dates in Java? [duplicate]
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Closed 2 years ago.
I want to get the date as a year, month ,day without hours or minutes or any thing else, and I don't want to get the year alone and the month and the day each by its self. Because as a full date I need it to comparison with another date
such as today 28.11.2012 and to compare it to 11.12.2011
as if today minus 11.12.2011 more than 280 day I want to execute some code

you can use SimpleDateFormat.
The basics for getting the current date
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM d, yyyy");
String now = df.format(new Date());
or
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yy");
String now = df.format(new Date());
EDITED :
First of All you have the date in String Formate. you have to Convert into date Formate. try below code to do that. you have apply same for both the String strThatDay & strTodaDay you will get Calender Object for both.
String strThatDay = "2012/11/27";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
Date d = null;
try {
d = formatter.parse(strThatDay);//catch exception
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
Calendar thatDay = Calendar.getInstance();
thatDay.setTime(d);
after that try below code to get Day from two Date :
long diff = today.getTimeInMillis() - thatDay.getTimeInMillis(); //result in millis
long days = diff / (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
try it out. Hope it will help you.

Always use Simpledateformat(yyyy/mm/dd) for comparision..
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd");
String currentDateandTime = sdf.format(new Date());
Use this currentDateandTime to compare with other date.
I think this may be a solution.U have to get instance of 2 calendar (1 for current date and another for compare date.
Calendar cal1=Calendar.getInstance();
Date dt=null;
try{
dt = sdf.parse(currentDateandTime);
cal1.setTime(dt);
}catch (ParseException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
int currentDaycmp= cal1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int currentMonthcmp=cal1.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int currentYearcmp=cal1.get(Calendar.YEAR);
Calendar cal2=Calendar.getInstance();
Date dtend=null;
try{
dtend = sdf.parse(comparedate);
cal2.setTime(dtend);
} catch (ParseException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
int currentDayend= cal2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
int currentMonend=cal2.get(Calendar.MONTH);
int currentyearend=cal2.get(Calendar.YEAR);
now find the difference
currentDaycmp-currentDayend(your condition)..then execute your block..
U try this..May be meet ur requirement..

You may want to use Joda-Time for this:
final DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd.MM.yyyy");
LocalDate first = LocalDate.parse("28.11.2012", formatter);
// LocalDate first = new LocalDate(2012, 11, 28);
// LocalDate first = LocalDate.now();
LocalDate second = LocalDate.parse("11.12.2011", formatter);
int daysBetween = Days.daysBetween(first, second).getDays();
You should be aware of that daysBetween is a negative value if the second date is before the first like in this example.
For the given example daysBetween is -353.

You can use the compareTo method.
Firstly, make sure that the two dates you are using have the same format. That is, if one is YYYY,DD,MM then the other would be the same.
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd");
Date firstDate = sdf.parse("2012-11-27");
System.out.println(sdf.format(firstDate));
And then you would do a firsDate.compareTo(SecondDate);
if firstDate.compareTo(SecondDate) < 280 {
...
}

Calendar todayCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Calendar pickedDateCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
todayCalendar.set(currentYear,currentMonth,currentDay);
pickedDateCalendar.set(birthDayDatePicker.getYear(),birthDayDatePicker.getMonth(),birthDayDatePicker.getDayOfMonth());
System.out.println("Days= "+daysBetween(todayCalendar.getTime(),pickedDateCalendar.getTime()));
int Days = daysBetween(todayCalendar.getTime(),pickedDateCalendar.getTime());
public int daysBetween(Date d1, Date d2){
return (int)( (d2.getTime() - d1.getTime()) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
}