Question

I have a date and time 2011-02-28 07:00:52 as a string. How can I read it and then parse it as a date and time to compare it to an Android system time and date?

Answer 1

String time; // your string representing the time
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
Date startDate = dateFormatter.parse(time);

and

new Date() 

will give you a date representing the current date and time.