android-date

I am new to Android and I am currently facing an issue to get current time given the timezone. I get timezone in the format "GMT-7" i.e. string. and I have the system time. Is there a clean way to get the current time in the above given timezone? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, edit : Trying to do this : public String getTime(String timezone) { Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); c.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timezone)); Date date = c.getTime(); SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); String strDate = df.format(date); return c.getTime().toString(); } Vishesh Joshi I

I have a string containing a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD . How would you suggest I go about converting it to the format DD-MM-YYYY in the best possible way? This is how I would do it naively: import java.util.*; public class test { public static void main(String[] args) { String date = (String) args[0]; System.out.println(date); //outputs: YYYY-MM-DD System.out.println(doConvert(date)); //outputs: DD-MM-YYYY } public static String doConvert(String d) { String dateRev = ""; String[] dateArr = d.split("-"); for(int i=dateArr.length-1 ; i>=0 ; i--) { if(i!=dateArr.length-1) dateRev += "-";

I wrote the following code Date d = new Date(); CharSequence s = DateFormat.format("MMMM d, yyyy ", d.getTime()); But is asking me parameter, I want current date in string format, like 28-Dec-2011 so that I can set over TextView , explain a bit, if you think something is necessary, I am new to Android Development. Paresh Mayani You can use the SimpleDateFormat class for formatting date in your desired format. Just check this link where you get an idea for your example. For example: String dateStr = "04/05/2010"; SimpleDateFormat curFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); Date dateObj =

I have milliseconds. I need it to be converted to date format of example: 23/10/2011 How to achieve it? Uttam Just Try this Sample code:- import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; public class Test { /** * Main Method */ public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(getDate(82233213123L, "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss.SSS")); } /** * Return date in specified format. * @param milliSeconds Date in milliseconds * @param dateFormat Date format * @return String representing date in specified format */ public static String getDate(long