Format current date to show day of the week

Question

I want to show the current date in my application like this: Thu, May 2, 2013

I already have the following code to get the current date

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();

Time time = new Time();
time.set(c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), c.get(Calendar.MONTH),
             c.get(Calendar.YEAR));

How can I format this Time object to the string I need?

Try using SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); For the detailed explanation of the values uses use [this link](http://download.java.net/jdk7/archive/b123/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html) — Ashwini Bhangi, May 02 '13 at 11:47
FYI, the troublesome old date-time classes such as `java.util.Date`, `java.util.Calendar`, and `java.text.SimpleDateFormat` are now legacy, supplanted by the [*java.time*](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/java/time/package-summary.html) classes. Most of the *java.time* functionality is back-ported to Java 6 & Java 7 in the [***ThreeTen-Backport***](http://www.threeten.org/threetenbp/) project. Further adapted for earlier Android in the [***ThreeTenABP***](https://github.com/JakeWharton/ThreeTenABP) project. See [*How to use ThreeTenABP…*](http://stackoverflow.com/q/38922754/642706). — Basil Bourque, Oct 01 '18 at 00:37

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '13 at 12:30

This does what you want

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM d, yyyy");
String strDate = sdf.format(cal.getTime());
System.out.println("Current date in String Format: " + strDate);

Where strDate can be displayed in your textView or whatever

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '13 at 11:48

Maybe you can use it.

This example displays the names of the weekdays in short form with the help of DateFormatSymbols().getWeekdays() method of DateFormatSymbols class.

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      Date dt = new Date(1000000000000L);

      DateFormat[] dtformat = new DateFormat[6];
      dtformat[0] = DateFormat.getInstance();
      dtformat[1] = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
      dtformat[2] = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM);
      dtformat[3] = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.FULL);
      dtformat[4] = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG);
      dtformat[5] = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);

      for(DateFormat dateform : dtformat)
         System.out.println(dateform.format(dt));
  }
}

output:

9/9/01 7:16 AM
Sep 9, 2001
Sep 9, 2001
Sunday, September 9, 2001
September 9, 2001
9/9/01

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 02 '13 at 11:53

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Use this

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM dd,yyyy");
String formattedDate = formatter.format(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));              
Log.e("formattedDate",formattedDate);

edited May 02 '13 at 11:53

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answered May 02 '13 at 11:48

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 17 '14 at 18:36

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SimpleDateFormat dateformat= new SimpleDateFormat("dd,MM,yyyy");

String strdate = dateformat.format(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));

Oops, I'm a bit slow.

edited Jun 17 '14 at 18:36

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answered May 02 '13 at 11:59

Jose Antonio Benitez Montero

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 02 '13 at 12:02

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I will suggest to use java.text.SimpleDateFormat instead.

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    Date date=new Date();
    String format = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE,MMM d,yyyy ").format(date);
    System.out.println(format);
}

answered May 02 '13 at 12:02

Shivansh Rajan

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Format current date to show day of the week

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