How to get Date from Calender object in Android.?

Question

I have Calender object as follows--

final Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();

and I want to get/extract date from above Calendar object in the following format--

"Sat Jul 20 14:53:36 GMT+02:00 2013"

Can anybody please tell me How can I do this..!!

What have you tried? [Oracle Tutorial](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/simpleDateFormat.html), Related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12575990/calendar-date-to-yyyy-mm-dd-format-in-java — BackSlash, Jul 20 '13 at 09:27
possible duplicate of [Format date in java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4772425/format-date-in-java) — JB Nizet, Jul 20 '13 at 09:28

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:35

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Try this:

    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss 'GMT'Z yyyy");
    System.out.println(dateFormat.format(cal.getTime()));

answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:35

amatellanes

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:30

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Set the calendars data set(), add(), and roll().
Use the Calendars getTime()-method to get a Date-object.
Use SimpleDateFormat to format the date like you want to.

answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:30

Lukas Knuth

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:34

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Try:

    final Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    String dat=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss 'GMT'Z yyyy").format(calendar.getTime())
    System.out.println(dat);//"Sat Jul 20 14:53:36 GMT+02:00 2013"

Should work for you!!

answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:34

rahulserver

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 20 '13 at 09:40

   call getTime() by using Calendar reference

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    tv.setText(calendar.getTime() + "");

     **or**

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss 'GMT'Z yyyy");
tv.setText(dateFormat.format(calendar.getTime()));

How to get Date from Calender object in Android.?

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