How to format date and time in Android?

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pupeno picture pupeno · Jan 18, 2009 · Viewed 593.7k times · Source

How to format correctly according to the device configuration date and time when having a year, month, day, hour and minute?

Answer

JamieH picture JamieH · Jan 19, 2009

Use the standard Java DateFormat class.

For example to display the current date and time do the following:

Date date = new Date(location.getTime());
DateFormat dateFormat = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(getApplicationContext());
mTimeText.setText("Time: " + dateFormat.format(date));

You can initialise a Date object with your own values, however you should be aware that the constructors have been deprecated and you should really be using a Java Calendar object.

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