Question

I have a date in string format as 25 November 2010 and I am trying to fetch the milliseconds of that date, for that I have written the below code:

strDateSelcted = "25 November 2010" // Actually I am receiving date in this format
SimpleDateFormat curFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy"); 
 try {
    Date dateObj = curFormater.parse(strDateSelcted);

        insertEventtoCalendar(dateObj.getTime());   // Actually insert an event onto the native calendar

  } catch (ParseException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
 } 

But, when I try to run the application,it creates an event a day before the date inserted, i.e. For 25 November 2010 it inserts event on 24 November 2010 and For 27 November 2010 it inserts event on 26 November 2010, and same.

Where am I making a mistake?

Answer 1

To set the timezone used by the date formatter: call the setTimeZone method
e.g.

curFormater.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));