Split date/time strings

Question

I have a ReST service which downloads information about events in a persons calendar...

When it returns the date and time, it returns them as a string

e.g. d

Answer 1

Try this:

String date = "12/8/2012";
String time = "11:25 am";

String[] date1 = date.split("/");
String[] time1 = time.split(":");
String[] time2 = time1[1].split(" ");  // to remove am/pm

Calendar beginTime = Calendar.getInstance();
beginTime.set(Integer.parseInt(date1[2]), Integer.parseInt(date1[1]), Integer.parseInt(date1[0]), Integer.parseInt(time1[0]), Integer.parseInt(time2[0]));
startMillis = beginTime.getTimeInMillis();
intent.put(Events.DTSTART, startMillis);

Hope this helps.