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

It's too late but it may help to someone

DateFormat.format(format, timeInMillis);

here format is what format you need

ex: "HH:mm" returns 15:30

Answer 2

Try:

event.putExtra("startTime", "10/05/2012");

And when you are accessing passed variables:

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Date date = formatter.parse(bundle.getString("startTime"));

Answer 3

Use the standard Java DateFormat class.

For example to display the current date and time do the following:

Date date = new Date(location.getTime());
DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext());
mTimeText.setText("Time: " + dateFormat.format(date));

You can initialise a Date object with your own values, however you should be aware that the constructors have been deprecated and you should really be using a Java Calendar object.

Answer 4

You can use DateFormat. Result depends on default Locale of the phone, but you can specify Locale too :

https://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/DateFormat.html

This is results on a

DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(date)                                          

FR Locale : 3 nov. 2017

US/En Locale : Jan 12, 1952

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DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(date)

FR Locale : 03/11/2017

US/En Locale : 12.13.52

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DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(date)

FR Locale : 3 nov. 2017

US/En Locale : Jan 12, 1952

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DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG).format(date)

FR Locale : 3 novembre 2017

US/En Locale : January 12, 1952

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DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL).format(date)

FR Locale : vendredi 3 novembre 2017

US/En Locale : Tuesday, April 12, 1952

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DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(date)

FR Locale : 3 nov. 2017 16:04:58

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DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.SHORT).format(date)

FR Locale : 03/11/2017 16:04

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DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(date)

FR Locale : 03/11/2017 16:04:58

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DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.LONG).format(date)

FR Locale : 03/11/2017 16:04:58 GMT+01:00

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DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.FULL).format(date)

FR Locale : 03/11/2017 16:04:58 heure normale d’Europe centrale

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DateFormat.getTimeInstance().format(date)

FR Locale : 16:04:58

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DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT).format(date)

FR Locale : 16:04

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DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM).format(date)

FR Locale : 16:04:58

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DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG).format(date)

FR Locale : 16:04:58 GMT+01:00

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DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL).format(date)

FR Locale : 16:04:58 heure normale d’Europe centrale

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Answer 5

This will do it:

Date date = new Date();
java.text.DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext());
mTimeText.setText("Time: " + dateFormat.format(date));

Answer 6

Following this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/format/Time.html

Is better to use Android native Time class:

Time now = new Time();
now.setToNow();

Then format:

Log.d("DEBUG", "Time "+now.format("%d.%m.%Y %H.%M.%S"));