Question

Now it’s like this, I have a long variable with date and time on it. So I use DateFormat to get the date and time for itself, and now I want to get the year, month, day, hour and minutes for itself. The date and time is in a String, so actually I could just cut the string with substring and all that. But since like for example Sweden has their date like this: “dd/mm/yyyy”, and the US has their date like this: “mm/dd/yyyy”. So if I just cut the String for the Swedish date, the day variable will become the month.

This is my code:

String start = mCursor.getLong(1);

Format df = DateFormat.getDateFormat(this);
Format tf = DateFormat.getTimeFormat(this);

String date = df.format(start);
String time = tf.format(start);

So my question is, is there someway to get the year, month, day, hour and minute for itself in a own String?

Thanks in advance, GuiceU. (Bad english, I know)

Answer 1

I wouldn’t do it that way. Use java.util.Calendar:

DateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd");
dateFormatter.setLenient(false);
String dateStr = "2012-Dec-21";
Date date = dateFormatter.parse(dateStr);
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(date);
int month = calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH);