How to omit 0 in a whole number Date string

Question

I have successfully changed the format of a date string from yyyy-MM-dd to MM/dd. Now the problem is that if the month and day values are less than 10 each, the format should be for example 2/7 and not 02/07. How do I do this?

Here's my code:

    public static String cahngeFormat(String dateTime) {
        Date date = null;
        String str = dateTime;
        DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
        try {
            date = formatter.parse(str);
            Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
            calendar.setTime(date);
            calendar.add(Calendar.HOUR, 2);
            formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd");
            str = formatter.format(calendar.getTime());
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return str;
    }

have you solved your issue or not? – dipali Dec 20 '13 at 04:17 — dipali, Dec 20 '13 at 04:17

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '13 at 04:19

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Change the format from "MM/dd" to "M/d" to allow single-digit output instead.

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("M/d");

answered Dec 20 '13 at 04:19

Andrew T.

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I was looking if there were other solutions, turned out this is similar to what I'm doing now. So I'll check this for the solution. Thanks. – Compaq LE2202x Dec 20 '13 at 08:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '13 at 04:08

DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
                    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
                    calendar.setTimeInMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
                    String timer = formatter.format(calendar.getTime());
                    formatter.setTimeZone(java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
                    txtTimerCount.setText(formatter.format(timePassed));

i hope this is useful to you.

How to omit 0 in a whole number Date string

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