SimpleDateFormat is a concrete Java class for formatting and parsing dates and times in a locale-sensitive manner. It allows for formatting (date -> text), parsing (text -> date), and normalization.
See documentation on SimpleDateFormat.
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What is this date format? 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z
I have the following date: 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z. What format is this? I'm trying to parse it with Java 1.4 via DateFormat.getDateInstance().parse(dateStr) and I'm getting
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date:…
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Why is Java's SimpleDateFormat not thread-safe?
Please tell with a code example why is SimpleDateFormat not threadsafe. What is the problem in this class?
Is The problem with format function of SimpleDateFormat?
Please give a code which demonstrates this fault in class.
FastDateFormat is…
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Illegal pattern character 'T' when parsing a date string to java.util.Date
I have a date string and I want to parse it to normal date use the java Date API,the following is my code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String date="2010-10-02T12:23:23Z";
String pattern="yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ";
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How can I get current date in Android?
I wrote the following code
Date d = new Date();
CharSequence s = DateFormat.format("MMMM d, yyyy ", d.getTime());
I want the current date in string format, like
28-Dec-2011
so that I can set it into a TextView.
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Convert String to Calendar Object in Java
I am new to Java, usually work with PHP.
I am trying to convert this string:
Mon Mar 14 16:02:37 GMT 2011
Into a Calendar Object so that I can easily pull the Year and Month like this:
String yearAndMonth =…
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Java SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'") gives timezone as IST
I have SimpleDateFormat constructor as
SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'")
and I am parsing string "2013-09-29T18:46:19Z".
I have read that here Z represents the GMT/UTC timezone. but when I print this date on console , It prints IST…
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How to parse a date?
I am trying to parse this date with SimpleDateFormat and it is not working:
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class Formaterclass {
public static void main(String[] args) throws…
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How do you format the day of the month to say "11th", "21st" or "23rd" (ordinal indicator)?
I know this will give me the day of the month as a number (11, 21, 23):
SimpleDateFormat formatDayOfMonth = new SimpleDateFormat("d");
But how do you format the day of the month to include an ordinal indicator, say 11th, 21st or 23rd?
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Is there a date format to display the day of the week in java?
I know of date formats such as
"yyyy-mm-dd" -which displays date in format 2011-02-26
"yyyy-MMM-dd"-which displays date in format 2011-FEB-26
to be used in eg:
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(
"yyyy/MMM/dd ");
I…
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How to convert an Instant to a date format?
I can convert a java.util.Date to a java.time.Instant (Java 8 and later) this way:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 8);
cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 30);
Date startTime = cal.getTime();
Instant i =…
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Get yesterday's date using Date
The following function produces today's date; how can I make it produce only yesterday's date?
private String toDate() {
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = new Date();
return…
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Why is the month changed to 50 after I added 10 minutes?
I have this date object:
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm");
Date d1 = df.parse(interviewList.get(37).getTime());
value of d1 is Fri Jan 07 17:40:00 PKT 2011
Now I am trying to add 10 minutes to the date above.
Calendar…
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SimpleDateFormat and locale based format string
I'm trying to format a date in Java in different ways based on the given locale. For instance I want English users to see "Nov 1, 2009" (formatted by "MMM d, yyyy") and Norwegian users to see "1. nov. 2009" ("d. MMM. yyyy").
The month part works OK…
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SimpleDateFormat parsing date with 'Z' literal
I am trying to parse a date that looks like this:
2010-04-05T17:16:00Z
This is a valid date per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt. The 'Z' literal (quote) "imply that UTC is the preferred reference point for the specified time."
If I try to…
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What are the date formats available in SimpleDateFormat class?
Can anybody let me know about the date formats available in SimpleDateFormat class.
I have gone through api but could not find a satisfactory answer.Any help is highly appreciated.
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