Question

I am wondering how to properly display dates in Android. I mean date-formats, which fit to the specific region, where the application is downloaded.
What I am doing atm is:

DateFormat formatter = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance();
String[] dateParts = date.split(DATE_DELIMITER);
Date temp = new Date(Integer.valueOf(dateParts[4])-1900, Integer.valueOf(dateParts[3]),
            Integer.valueOf(dateParts[2]), Integer.valueOf(dateParts[0]),
            Integer.valueOf(dateParts[1]));
return formatter.format(temp);

So… There are following problems with this: Java.util.Date is marked as deprecated, and it displays me seconds too, although I don’t want that.

Is there any “Beautiful” solution for that? I’d be glad if you could tell me 🙂

Answer 1

EDIT

To format a date for the current Locale, use one of the static factory methods:

String formattedString = DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(yourDate);

This will format accordingly to the device current locale, that is the one configured in android settings.

More Info

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A solution is to use a SimpleDateFormat

public static vod FormatDate(Date yourDate) {

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");

    return sdf.format( yourDate ));

}

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