I create a date and then format is like this:
Example 1:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss dd/MM/yyyy");
String currentDate = sdf.format(new Date());
What I would like to do is check if this date is before another date (also formatted the same way). How would I go about doing this?
Example 2:
Also, how would I check whether one of these is before another:
long setForLong = System.currentTimeMillis() + (totalTime*1000);
String display = (String) DateFormat.format("HH:mm:ss dd/MM/yyyy", setForLong);
EDIT:
I think more detail is needed. I create a date in two different ways for two different uses. The first use just formats the current date into a string so it is readable for the user. In the second case, I am using a date in the future with System.currentTimeMillis and adding on a long. Both result in a string.
Both methods format the date in exactly the same way, and I set the strings into a TextView. Later, I need to compare these dates. I do not have the original data/date/etc, only these strings. Becasue they are formatted in the same way, I though it would be easy to compare them.
I have tried the if(String1.compareTo(String2) >0 ) method, but that does not work if the day is changed.
If you only have two String objects that are dates available to you. You will need to process them in something, either in your own comparator class or in another object. In this case, since these are already formatted into dates, you can just create Date objects and compare using the methods previously posted. Something like this:
String string = "05:30:33 15/02/1985";
Date date1 = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string);
String string2 = "15:30:33 01/02/1985";
Date date2 = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss dd/MM/yyyy", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(string2);
if(date1.getTime()>date2.getTime()) {
//date1 greater than date2
}
else if(date1.getTime()<date2.getTime()) {
//date1 less than date2
}
else {
//date1 equal to date2
}
You should use Calendar for convenient comparing dates.
Calendar c1 = Calendar.getInstance();
c1.setTime(Date someDate);
Calendar c2 = Calendar.getInstance();
c2.setTime(Date anotherDate);
if(c1.before(c2)){
// do something
}
And you can format it at any time
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss dd/MM/yyyy");
String currentDate = sdf.format(c1.getTime());
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I am trying to convert "2021-05-14T13:42:48.000Z" string to Date Object.
I have tried this:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DDHH:MM:SS");
And also this, which i saw on stackoverflow only:-
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:MM:SS'A'");
But none of it worked.
How can i convert this string to my date object?
Assuming your date string always represents a UTC time (with the 'Z'), you can use format string:
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
but you'll first need to replace the Z in your date string with the fixed timezone "+0000", as in "2021-05-14T13:42:48.000+0000".
Try this:
String myDateString = "2021-05-14T13:42:48.000Z"
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ", Locale.US);
Date myDate = dateFormat.parse (myDateString.replace("Z","+0000"));
This will return a date correctly adjusted for your current timezone, in my case 9:42:48am EDT.
There is a more detailed discussion at Converting ISO 8601-compliant String to java.util.Date which you may find useful.
You have used the date-time format incorrectly. It's important to note that the date-time formats have different meanings between capitalized and small letters.
For example: Capital MM means months, whereas small mm means minutes.
To know more about the date formats, you can refer this:
https://cheatography.com/pezmat/cheat-sheets/date-time-formats/pdf/
or this:
https://devhints.io/datetime
And the answer for your case is:
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
Please do not use SimpleDateFormat or even java.date. All these classes are deprecated.
Instead, rely on the Android available java.time package.
In short:
val source = "2021-05-14T13:42:48.000Z"
val parsed = ZonedDateTime.parse(source)
This will correctly parse the timezone (Z for Zulu/UTC/GMT).
You can verify this, by simply converting the parsed Zoned date time into, for example, Europe/Amsterdam time (which is +2).
val source = "2021-05-14T13:42:48.000Z"
val parsed = ZonedDateTime.parse(source)
parsed.toString() // prints: 2021-05-14T13:42:48Z
parsed.zone // prints: "Z"
ZoneId.of(parsed.zone.id) // returns the ZoneOffset "Z" (correct)
// Convert to Amsterdam Time
val amsterdamDateTime = parsed.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Europe/Amsterdam"))
amsterdamDateTime.toString() // prints: 2021-05-14T15:42:48+02:00[Europe/Amsterdam] (2 hours ahead of the Zulu time, also correct).
parsed.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME).toString() // Prints: 2021-05-14T13:42:48Z (correct)
So as you can see, these classes do the right thing (most of the time).
I suggest you use them.
I have to get count of days which are past to the current day.I have list of days in arraylist.I got the list and I dont know how to compare?Can anyone help me?
This is the code I tried,
private void weeklylogeval(){
int i;
DateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss");
dateFormatter.setLenient(false);
Date today = new Date();
String s = dateFormatter.format(today);
System.out.println("current date & time new:::"+s);
for(i=0;i<datetime.size();i++){
String daytime=datetime.get(i);
if(today.before(daytime))
}
}
Pls some one help me!
Try this code for date difference manipulation.
String fd=from_date;//date get from mysql database as string.
String td=to_date;//Today's date as string.
if(!fd.equalsIgnoreCase("") && !td.equalsIgnoreCase("")){
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat formatter;
Date frmdt=new Date(fd);
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
String s1 = formatter.format(frmdt);
Date todt=new Date(td);
String s2 = formatter.format(todt);
Date frmdate = sdf.parse(s1);
Date todate = sdf.parse(s2);
if(frmdate.compareTo(todate)<=0) {
//do your stuff
} else {
// do your stuff
}
}
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Calendar.html
This should be allot easier to use for your purpose
Edit:
Methods you can use:
boolean after(Object calendar)
Returns whether the Date represented by this Calendar instance is after the Date represented by the parameter.
boolean before(Object calendar)
Returns whether the Date represented by this Calendar instance is before the Date represented by the parameter.
Maybe you can construct a Date form the String you get from DB, and then use today.before(daytime) to compare them.
Date daytime = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").parse(datetime.get(i));
I am trying to get long value of a string (date & time string), but it is not working. What I am trying to do is:
Choose date form datepicker and store it in a String
Choose time from timepicker and store it in a String
Then I concatenate these two strings and get long value from that string.
I have tried a few Date formatters but I am unable to get this done. The format of my string is dd-MM-yyy h:mm a. Please help me out of this. Provide any utility available for this.
Try this:-
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyy h:mm a");
Date myDate = new Date(); // Default Value.
try {
myDate = sdf.parse(dateString);
} catch (ParseException e) {
// Do Something on Error.
}
Long dateTimeinLong = myDate.getTime();
where dateString is your concatenated String of date and time.
Forget about strings, and go directly with the values:
DatePicker dp = (DatePicker) findViewById...
TimePicker tp = (TimePicker) findViewById...
Date timeStamp = new Date( dp.getYear(), dp.getMonth(), dp.getDay(), tp.getHour(), tp.getMinute(), 0 );
long longTime = timeStamp.getTime();
I have a requirement that I need to compare two Dates. One Date will come from DB which is String in "YYYY-DD-MM" firm and I need to compare this String Date with current Date.
for this I am converting Date String into Date object.
Now I need current Date also in "YYYY-MM-DD" format and it should be Date object so that I can use.compareTo() method compare two dates..
Please help me how to do that...
Date cDate = new Date();
String fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(cDate);
You can do it in following way
// pick current system date
Date dt = new Date();
// set format for date
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
// parse it like
String check = dateFormat.format(dt);
System.out.println("DATE TO FROM DATEBASE " +
arrayOfStringDate[d].toString());
System.out.println("CURRENT DATE " + check);
// and compare like
System.out.println("compare "+
arrayOfStringDate[d].toString().equals(check));
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat tf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
String time=DB time;
Date parseTime= tf.parse(time);
Integer dayNow=c.getTime().getDate();
Integer dayDb=parseTime.getDate();
then you can compare dayNow and dayDb.
If your current date is actually an instance of the java.util.Date class, you don't need to specify a format for it; it's just a millisecond value that represents a specific moment in time.
You can get the current date like so:
Date currentDate = new Date();
You can use 2 ways:
DateFormat object. Use parse method.
Make your own parser of the Date. I mean, you convert the year, month and day in an integer each, and use Date constructor to get the Date.
I have a problem when I try to get only the time from a Timestamp.
An example of the Timestamp is:
2012-04-19T23:05:00+0200
I think the format is "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" right?
And it must be "HH:mm".
I use the following code, but it returnes nothing:
public String getTime(String Vertrektijd){
final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
Date dateObj;
String newDateStr = null;
try
{
dateObj = df.parse(Vertrektijd);
SimpleDateFormat fd = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
newDateStr = fd.format(dateObj);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
return newDateStr;
}
Thanks for the help!
Your code is correct...
In the example time what you have given in the question(ie, "2012-04-19T23:05:00+0200") is missing MilliSeconds
Try passing this
getTime("2012-04-19T23:05:00.235+0200");
It should work.
Edit:
As MH mentioned, If you dont want to use milliseconds
you can change the code to
final SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ");
Date has a getHours() and getMinutes() function, but it is deprecated. The proper way would be to use a Calendar
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime( dateObj );
int hours = calendar.get( Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY );
int minutes = calendar.get( Calendar.MINUTE );
Here is an attempt to summarize all the confusing classes that Java and Android provide to do with dates, times and timezones. Basically, you do most of your date/time manipulations using GregorianCalendar objects, probably using methods from the Calendar superclass. To do locale-specific formatting, you need a DateFormat. But that can only format Date objects, so you need to convert your Calendar/GregorianCalendar to one of those first. Basically, SimpleDateFormat is for doing custom formatting, as you’ve already discovered.
Note there are two different classes called “DateFormat”.