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format date from 14 aug to YYYYMMDD

Hi I need to get a date in a YYYYMMDD format. I Don’t know the right method for that…
I set the date with this lines of code…

    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

    cal.clear();

    cal.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
    cal.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
    cal.set(Calendar.DATE, date);

Later in the code I need to extract the YYYYMMDD date value, how I can do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

You would use SimpleDateFormat:

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
format.setCalendar(cal);
String text = format.format(cal.getTime());

Personally I would strongly recommend that you look at using Joda Time instead though – it’s a much nicer API than the built-in Date/Calendar class.