How to get current local date and time in Kotlin

Question

How to get current Date (day month and year) and time (hour, minutes and seconds) all in local time in Kotlin?

I tried through LocalDateTime.now() but it is

Answer 1

You can get current year, month, day etc from a calendar instance

val c = Calendar.getInstance()

val year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR)
val month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH)
val day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)

val hour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)
val minute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE)

If you need it as a LocalDateTime, simply create it by using the parameters you got above

val myLdt = LocalDateTime.of(year, month, day, ... )

Answer 2

To get the current Date in Kotlin do this:

val dateNow = Calendar.getInstance().time

Answer 3

checkout these easy to use Kotlin extensions for date format

fun String.getStringDate(initialFormat: String, requiredFormat: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): String {
    return this.toDate(initialFormat, locale).toString(requiredFormat, locale)
}

fun String.toDate(format: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): Date = SimpleDateFormat(format, locale).parse(this)

fun Date.toString(format: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): String {
    val formatter = SimpleDateFormat(format, locale)
    return formatter.format(this)
}

Answer 4

Another solution is changing the api level of your project in build.gradle and this will work.

Answer 5

Try this :

 val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("dd/M/yyyy hh:mm:ss")
 val currentDate = sdf.format(Date())
 System.out.println(" C DATE is  "+currentDate)

Answer 6

My utils method for get current date time using Calendar when our minSdkVersion < 26.

fun Date.toString(format: String, locale: Locale = Locale.getDefault()): String {
    val formatter = SimpleDateFormat(format, locale)
    return formatter.format(this)
}

fun getCurrentDateTime(): Date {
    return Calendar.getInstance().time
}

Using

import ...getCurrentDateTime
import ...toString
...
...
val date = getCurrentDateTime()
val dateInString = date.toString("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss")