Change date and time format Android

Question

I am getting date and time as 2017-01-15T21:30:05Z from an API. I want to change the date to JAN 15,2017 and time to 9:30 pm format.

Here is my code without formatting.

News currentNews = newsList.get(position);
String time=currentNews.getTime();
String[] parts=time.split("T");
parts[1]=parts[1].replace("Z","");

dateView.setText(parts[0]);
timeView.setText(parts[1]);

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '17 at 19:23

You need to use SimpleDateFormat and Date object. You will need to create 1 SimpleDateFormat with initial style and 1 with desired style. Then create a Date object and parse received from API date to this object. Then print out it using the second SimpleDateFormat.

Try this code:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd, yyyy h:mm a");

try {
    Date d = sdf.parse("2017-01-15T21:30:05Z");
    System.out.println(d);                     // date in INITIAL format
    System.out.println(sdf2.format(d));        // date in DESIRED format
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

@priyanshugoyal Glad to hear that! Consider accepting and upvoting my answer :) Happy coding! — Marat, Feb 21 '17 at 20:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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You can use le class SimpleDateFormat to parse your String. Then, you can get a Date from it.

Here is an example if usage : Java SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'") gives timezone as IST

For more details, here is the official documentation : https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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