how to format Time not Date on Android or Java?

Question

I want to format the time like this: 2011-05-11 11:22:33 .

I had the following code:

Time time = new Time(MobiSageUtility.TIMEZONE_STRING);
time.setToNow();

String timeStr= time.format("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

However, that gives the date as: "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" not "2011-05-11 11:22:33" . After looking at the Android reference documents, I tried the following code:

 String timeStr = time.format2445();

But that gives a string like: 20110511T112233 . Can somebody tell me how to format the time correctly?

Answer 1

String timeStr= time.format("%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S");

See man strftime as doc of method format explains:

http://linux.die.net/man/3/strftime

Answer 2

Use Date instead of Time and then use SimpleDateFormat.

Example:

SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = new Date();
String dateString = fmt.format(date);

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Answer 3

Use the SimpleDateFormater

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = new Date();
String time = sdf.format(date);

Answer 4

SimpleDateFormat outFmt = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
Date date = new Date(milliseconds);
String dateString = outFmt.format(date);