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

java.util.Calendar.getInstance() represents the current time using the current locale and timezone.

You could also choose to import and use Joda-Time or one of the forks for Android.

Answer 2

I use this to fetch data from API every 20 seconds

 private fun isFetchNeeded(savedAt: Long): Boolean {
        return savedAt + 20000 < System.currentTimeMillis()
    }

Answer 3

Try this:

val date = Calendar.getInstance().time
val formatter = SimpleDateFormat.getDateTimeInstance() //or use getDateInstance()
val formatedDate = formatter.format(date)

You can use your own pattern as well, e.g.

val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd")
// 2020.02.02

To get local formatting use getDateInstance(), getDateTimeInstance(), or getTimeInstance(), or use new SimpleDateFormat(String template, Locale locale) with for example Locale.US for ASCII dates. The first three options require API level 29.