Question

Having some troubles and can’t find a quick answer..

Im trying to store a date within a string, and later fetch it to convert it back to a date.

However when storing the date using:

string tmp = new Date().toString();

And then trying to convert it back using

Date date = new Date(tmp);

I get the Exception type

 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

with my Android 2.2 device. Does work with 2.2 & 2.3 emus tho.

Any tips on what other way i can store and convert back?

Answer 1

You could use SimpleDateFormat with its methods parse() and format().

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS");
String tmp = sdf.format(new Date());
Date date = sdf.parse(tmp);