Removing time from a Date object?

Question

I want to remove time from Date object.

DateFormat df;
String date;
df = new SimpleDateFormat(\"dd/MM/yyyy\");
d = eventList.get(0).getStartDate         


        

Answer 1

Apache Commons DateUtils has a "truncate" method that I just used to do this and I think it will meet your needs. It's really easy to use:

DateUtils.truncate(dateYouWantToTruncate, Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

DateUtils also has a host of other cool utilities like "isSameDay()" and the like. Check it out it! It might make things easier for you.

Answer 2

A bit of a fudge but you could use java.sql.Date. This only stored the date part and zero based time (midnight)

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2011);
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 11);
c.set(Calendar.DATE, 5);
java.sql.Date d = new java.sql.Date(c.getTimeInMillis());
System.out.println("date is  " + d);
DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
System.out.println("formatted date is  " + df.format(d));

gives

date is  2011-12-05
formatted date is  05/12/2011

Or it might be worth creating your own date object which just contains dates and not times. This could wrap java.util.Date and ignore the time parts of it.

Answer 3

You can write that for example:

private Date TruncarFecha(Date fechaParametro) throws ParseException {
    String fecha="";
    DateFormat outputFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
    fecha =outputFormatter.format(fechaParametro);
    return outputFormatter.parse(fecha);
}

Answer 4

Don't try to make it hard just follow a simple way

date is a string where your date is saved

String s2=date.substring(0,date.length()-11);

now print the value of s2. it will reduce your string length and you will get only date part.

Answer 5

Can't believe no one offered this shitty answer with all the rest of them. It's been deprecated for decades.

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
...
    Date hitDate = new Date();
    hitDate.setHours(0);
    hitDate.setMinutes(0);
    hitDate.setSeconds(0);

Answer 6

you could try something like this:

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class DtTime {
public static void main(String args[]) {
String s;
Format formatter;
  Date date = new Date();
  formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  s = formatter.format(date);
  System.out.println(s);
    }
}

This will give you output as21/03/2012

Or you could try this if you want the output as 21 Mar, 2012

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class DtTime {
public static void main(String args[]) {
    Date date=new Date();
String df=DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(date);
System.out.println(df);
    }
}