how to format a date?

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Hello I have been trying to format this date but it keeps giving me in unparsable date error? I am trying to get a time stamp like 2011-06-24T19:55:37Z to be June 24, 2011. here is the code I am using. Also on a side note is contraction (like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd) possible?

 SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM d, yyyy", Locale.US);
 Date dt = sdf.parse("2011-03-01T17:55:15Z");
 time.setText("Time: " + dt.toString());

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454315/how-do-you-format-date-and-time-in-android — Nikunj Patel, Jul 15 '11 at 09:28
Not necessarily relevant. The issue in this question is parsing a given date, not formatting the current date and time. — David Snabel-Caunt, Jul 15 '11 at 09:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '11 at 09:29

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The problem is that the format provided to SimpleDateFormat's constructor doesn't match the format of your date.

The string MM d, yyyy tells SimpleDateFormat how to interpret 2011-03-01T17:55:15Z.

Building a format string is described in the docs.

answered Jul 15 '11 at 09:29

David Snabel-Caunt

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I am still having some trouble. I need the date to look like June 24, 2011 from the timestamp 2011-06-24T19:55:37Z . Obviously I should strip off all the things I do not need. But does the foramtter work if the format is some thing like MM d, yyyy but the timestamp has the year first or do I need to switch everything around? – Pengume Jul 18 '11 at 20:15

Graham · Answer 2 · 2011-07-15T09:38:56.343

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This comes from another question within stackoverflow

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


DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS -05:00");
Date date = (Date)formatter.parse("2011-06-24T19:55:37Z");

Make sure the SimpleDateFormat matches your string

edited Jul 15 '11 at 09:38

answered Jul 15 '11 at 09:27

Graham

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Works for the current time and date, but what about parsing a date as in the OP's question? – David Snabel-Caunt Jul 15 '11 at 09:31
agreed with David. But thank you for giving an example code. – Pengume Jul 16 '11 at 01:06

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