Question

I am developing an application which needs the current date from the device, but it only needs day-of-week, month, and day-of-month, like Friday October 14

I have tried this code with Calendar. How do I convert Date to String? Is this possible to get date in this format?

 Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
 System.out.println("Date" + c.getTime());

 and my output : `Fri Oct 14 16:17:03 Asia/Calcutta 2011`

Answer 1

You could use SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE MMMM dd");
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
System.out.print("Date ");
System.out.println(fmt.format(c.getTime()));

If you need those values in different Strings it gets a little bit more complicated (using DateFormatSymbols to get the month/weekday names):

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
DateFormatSymbols dateSymbols = new DateFormatSymbols();
String[] monthsText = dateSymbols.getMonths();
String[] weekdaysText = dateSymbols.getWeekdays();

String day = String.valueOf(c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH));
String month = monthsText[c.get(Calendar.MONTH)];
String weekday = weekdaysText[c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)];

System.out.format("day: %s, month: %s, weekday: %s", day, month, weekday);