Question

In my android application, I want to set the date and time in TextView. In that date value I have selected and stored as a String. Now I want to set the String date value and current time.

I tried the following code. It did displayed stored date value but the time as 12.00 AM. I want current time?

String lbl_date="02-Aug-2011";
Date dateObj = new Date(lbl_date); 
SimpleDateFormat postFormater = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm aa",Locale.ENGLISH); 
String newDateStr = postFormater.format(dateObj);           
txt_date_start.setText(newDateStr.toString());

output as: 02-Aug-2011 12:00 AM

Need: 02-Aug-2011 [current time]

Answer 1

Date now = new Date();

String s;

Format formatter;

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm aa",Locale.ENGLISH);

s = formatter.format(date);

txt_date_start.setText(a);