I want to convert this (Mon Jan 16:20:12 India Standard Time 2014) Date in string to java.util.Date in java how can I do it. I want the date in the following format. Actually the Date (Mon Jan 16:20:12 India Standard Time 2014) is argument from MFC application which will be launching a executable jar file and…
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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 …
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…
Check if a given time lies between two times regardless of date
I have timespans: String time1 = 01:00:00 String time2 = 05:00:00 I want to check if time1 and time2 both lies between 20:11:13 and 14:49:00. Actually, 01:00:00 is greater than 20:11:13 and less than 14:49:00 considering 20:11:13 is always less than 14:49:00. This is given prerequisite. So what I want is, 20:…
Wrong time calculated in minutes from two Date objects to calculate duration
I am trying to calculate the duration between two date objects in minutes. I have found some inspiration during my research from this stackoverflow question. In generally this seems to work correct, …
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 out…
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…
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 has…
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 Basica…
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 forma…