I want to remove time from Date object. But when I’m converting this date (which is in String format) it is appending time also. I don’t want time at all. What I want is simply “21/03/2012”. Answer The quick answer is : No, you are not allowed to do that. Because that is what Date use …
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How to convert year month day to proper UTC milliseconds from the epoch?
I am trying to convert a date into milliseconds with the following code: I get left=-2206310400000, but when I check here, I should get -2208988800000. What am I doing wrong? Answer You’re using 1 for the month number, which means February. You mean From the docs: month – the value used to set the…
Unparseable date exception in java
These lines of codes causees this exception what is the possible solution ? Answer Your format is completely wrong. Not only are you using mm (which means minutes) when you probably meant MM, but this: is clearly not in the format You probably want something like EDIT: That works for me in desktop Java: You m…
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?
If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them: The output is: Why is ld4-ld3, not 1 (as I would expect from the one-second difference in the times), but 353? If I change the dates to times 1 second later: Then ld4-ld3 will be 1. Java version: …
What is the most recommended way to store time in PostgreSQL using Java?
I’m storing two dates in the PostgreSQL database. First, is the data of visit of a webpage, and the second date is the date of last modification of the webpage(this is get as a long). I have some doubts what is the best strategy to store these values. I only need day/month/year and hour:seconds and this…
java SimpleDateFormat
in Java, how to parse a date string that contains a letter that does not represent a pattern? “2007-11-02T14:46:03+01:00″ String date =”2007-11-02T14:46:03+01:00”; String format = “yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssz”; new SimpleDateFormat(format).parse(date); Exception in thread “m…
How to set an expiration date in java
I am trying to write some code to correctly set an expiration date given a certain date. For instance this is what i have. However, say if i the sign up date is on 5/7/2011 the expiration date output i get is on 11/6/2011 which is not exactly half of a year from the given date. Is there an easier
How can I utilize SimpleDateFormat with Calendar?
I’ve got GregorianCalendar instances and need to use SimpleDateFormat (or maybe something that can be used with calendar but that provides required #fromat() feature) to get needed output. Please, suggest work arounds as good as permanent solutions. Answer Try this:
Checking if a date exists or not in Java
Is there any predefined class in Java such that, if I pass it a date it should return if it is a valid date or not? For example if I pass it 31st of February of some year, then it should return false, and if the date exists then it should return me true, for any date of any year.
How do you format the day of the month to say “11th”, “21st” or “23rd” (ordinal indicator)?
I know this will give me the day of the month as a number (11, 21, 23): But how do you format the day of the month to include an ordinal indicator, say 11th, 21st or 23rd? Answer The table from @kaliatech is nice, but since the same information is repeated, it opens the chance for a bug. Such a