How can I read and parse a date and time in Android?

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I have a date and time 2011-02-28 07:00:52 as a string. How can I read it and then parse it as a date and time to compare it to an Android system time and date?

katsharp · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-30 21:19:14Z

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String time; // your string representing the time
SimpleDateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
Date startDate = dateFormatter.parse(time);

and

new Date()

will give you a date representing the current date and time.

answered Mar 30, 2011 at 21:19

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Thunder Rabbit Over a year ago

In my case, I had to put hyphens, a space, and colons in the parameter: ... = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

John J Smith · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-30 21:40:18Z

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When comparing dates, once you have the date object as shown by kett_chup, use date.getTime() which gives you the milliseconds and you can then easily compare with another date.getTime() to determine if one date came before or after the other.

answered Mar 30, 2011 at 21:40

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