How to format date and time in Android?

Question

How to format correctly according to the device configuration date and time when having a year, month, day, hour and minute?

Answer 1

Use these two as a class variables:

 public java.text.DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
 private Calendar mDate = null;

And use it like this:

 mDate = Calendar.getInstance();
 mDate.set(year,months,day);                   
 dateFormat.format(mDate.getTime());