Removing time from date. and keeping the DATE type

Question

I've a date object that returns a calendar.getTime() date.

However, this date is formatted like this:

("dd/MM/time/yyyy")

i want to get rid of that time and still keep the date as a date since I need the DATE type for the rest of my application to run correctly. I want it to show as

("dd/MM/yyy")
how can I do this? the other answers I have seen all require you to change it to a string. is it possible to put it to as string and then back to a date with no time?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html — duggu, Jan 30 '15 at 06:35
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html — duggu, Jan 30 '15 at 06:36
If you can possibly use Joda Time, I'd suggest using a `LocalDate` - that way it's really obvious what the value is meant to represent. — Jon Skeet, Jan 30 '15 at 06:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '15 at 06:39

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A dateobject always has a timepart. So you can not have a date without timepart. you only can set the timepart to zero:

    calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
    calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
    calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
    calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

If you only what to convert it to a String you can use SimpleDateFormat:

    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyy");
    String s = df.format(calendar.getTime());

answered Jan 30 '15 at 06:39

Jens

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Thank you. That was helpful. I managed to use it this way. I just realized i only need to display is as a string and program with it as a date since no one really looks at the DATE version anyways. Thank you for answering my question so clearly. – app_maker Jan 30 '15 at 06:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '15 at 06:46

You can do this with the DateFormat class, like this:

Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(2015, 01, 30);
DateFormat df = android.text.format.DateFormat.getDateFormat(this); 
String date = df.format(calendar.getTime());

getDateFormat(Context)

this return formatters defined by the system's locale. (It's god if you want support multi date formats (eg us, de)

Removing time from date. and keeping the DATE type

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