Question

I have timestamp string: "1989-01-01 00:00:00" and i need convert it to local date format.

I execute:

SimpleDateFormat TIMESTAMPFORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
DateFormat.getDateFormat(getContext()).format(TIMESTAMPFORMAT.parse("1989-01-01 00:00:00"));

And getDateFormat returns 31.12.1988

Why?

How can I receive 01.01.1989???

Answer 1

In order to skip time-zone when formatting, I would suggest you to set it to default as below:

SimpleDateFormat TIMESTAMPFORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
TIMESTAMPFORMAT.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));