Question

I would like the time respresented as this “Thu Jan 01 08:40:38 GMT+01:00 1754”

so i did this :

                Date datu = new Date();
                datu.setYear(1754);
                datu.setMonth(0);
                datu.setDate(1);
                DateFormat.format("%tc", datu);

                // DATU = Thu Jan 01 08:40:38 GMT+01:00 3654
                String startTime = datu.toGMTString();

now the problem is that i set the year on 1754 in the code. but as I print it out. there is 3654 ?

EDIT:
datu.setYear(1754-1900) can do the trick. but isn’t there another way?

Answer 1

Please try like this :

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("E MMM dd hh:mm:ss 'GMT'Z yyyy");
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.set(Calendar.YEAR,1754);
c.set(Calendar.MONTH, 0); // JAN
c.set(Calendar.DATE, 1);
System.out.println(sdf.format(new Date(c.getTimeInMillis())));

Output

Tue Jan 01 05:23:55 GMT+0800 1754