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Convert minutes into a human readable format

quick question. Is there a smarter/sleeker way to convert minutes into a more readable format, showing only the most significant digit? I’m using Android Studio’s Java. ie My code is very cumbersome, sloppy, and somewhat unreadable. Many thanks, J Answer Well it is possible, I figure it out and I am proud of it! 🙂 Note that you can easily

How to get the weekday of a Date?

I want to get the day of week from the Java Date object when I have an array of Date in String with me. Does anyone know the answer to this? Answer You can get the day-integer like that: If you need the output to be “Tue” rather than 3, instead of going through a calendar, just reformat the string:

Why SimpleDateFormat.format() and SimpleDateFormat.parse() are giving different time though setting only one TimeZone?

I am trying to set the Timezone to the different country’s timezone with help of SimpleDateFormat. SimpleDateFormat.format() returns correct current time of the given Timezone, but SimpleDateFormat.parse() returns local current time, I don’t know why this is happening. Here is the my code: The output is: Time1 is the output of “America/Los_Angeles” and Time2 is the output of local (i.e.

How to convert “Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012” to 18/06/2012?

I have a value like the following Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012 and I want to convert this to 18/06/2012 How to convert this? I tried this method but it throws following exception : java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “Mon Jun 18 00:00:00 IST 2012” Answer I hope following program will solve your problem

how to store date AND time with JPA in Oracle?

I’m using WebSphere 7 (Java EE 5) and OpenJPA 1.2.1. I have a JPA object with a “modifiedTimestamp” attribute, something like this: The related field in the Oracle database is of type DATE. I set the date like so … … and it gets stored, but when I read it back the time of day hasn’t been stored, it allows

Loop through Months in Java / Android

I want to loop through months of the year and print out. for example: 01/2012 02/2012 03/2012 04/2012 etc… Here is my code: It is printing out in int’s 1 2 3 4 5 However, when I convert it to a date string, as seen in code above, it does this: 05/2012 06/2012 08/2012 11/2012 03/2013 08/2013 Basically, the gap

Date formatting according to country habbits

We create J2SE application that has to format the date and time according to custom the country from which users come from. I want to ask how to solve this thing in Java? Probably I’ll use SimpleDateFormat, but I wonder if it is possible to get format string in somehow simpler way than to have all format strings for each

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