How to get Date object in “YYYY-MM-DD” format in android

Question

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

Answer 1

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));

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

 Date cDate = new Date();
 String fDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(cDate);

Answer 4

You can use 2 ways:

1. DateFormat object. Use parse method.

2. 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.

Answer 5

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();